ESQUIMAUX CURLEW. 
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The Esquimaux Curlew is eighteen inches long, and thirty- 
two inches in extent; the bill, which is four inches and a half 
long, is black towards the point, and a pale purplish flesh co- 
lour near the base; upper part of the head dark brown, divided 
by a narrow stripe of brownish white; over each eye extends a 
broad line of pale drab; iris dark coloured; hind part of the neck 
streaked with dark brown, fore part, and whole breast, very 
pale brown; upper part of the body pale drab, centred and bar- 
red with dark brown, and edged with spots of white on the ex- 
terior vanes; three first primaries black, with white shafts; rump 
and tail-coverts barred with dark brown; belly white; vent the 
same, marked with zigzag lines of brown; whole lining of the 
wing beautifully barred with brown on a dark cream ground ; 
legs and naked thighs a pale lead colour. 
The figure of this bird, and of all the rest in the same plate, 
are reduced to exactly one-half the size of life. 
Note. — Mr. Ord. in his reprint of the 8th. vol. expresses 
his doubts of this species being the Esquimaux Curlew {N. bo- 
realis) of Dr. Latham; as this ornithologist states his bird to be 
only thirteen inches in length, and in breadth twenty-one; and 
the bill two inches in length. 
Prince Musignano, in his observations on the nomenclature 
of Wilson’s Ornithology, states that he has ascertained the N. 
borealis, Lath, to be a distinct species, and promises to figure 
it in his American Ornithology. He considers Wilson’s bird 
{N. borealis) to be the N. Hudsonicus of Latham. 
