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1765f. Misunderstanding the words of Fabricius, Holboll in 
his memoir erased the bird (never since observed) from the Green¬ 
land Avifauna. But in 1856 a young Heron was found dead near 
Nenortalik, and sent to the Royal Museum ; and this occurrence 
not only gives the species a claim to be enumerated here, but 
makes it not unlikely that the old missionary may have been right. 
45. Numenius phceopus (Linn.). 
I have in the last years seen five or six specimens, sent from all 
parts of Greenland, and know that six others were formerly sent 
to my late father in the years 1831-35. Therefore, though 
Holboll doubts it, I should not be surprised if this Curlew in 
future proved to breed in Greenland. Prince Bonaparte has 
rather indicated than described J a Numenius melanorhynchus 
from Greenland (and Iceland), which he supposes has formerly 
been mistaken for the true N. phceopus. Of course there can be 
scarcely any doubt that his new species is the same bird, which 
I still consider to be the European, and, with all due regard for 
the high authority, I cannot give up this opinion. 
46. *Numenius hudsonicus, Lath. 
I myself have never seen more than one specimen of this bird 
from Greenland—a female sent from Godthaab by Holboll, and 
described and figured by my father (Ichth. Bidr. p. 19. pi. 2); 
but Holboll mentions that he obtained the bird twice, at Juliane- 
haab and Fiskensesset; and a fourth specimen (a very bad 
one) was sent some thirty years back to the Royal Museum from 
Jacobshavn, but seems not to have been preserved. 
47. * Numenius borealis , Lath. 
The Royal Museum possesses two specimens of this little 
Curlew, which indeed were not received directly from the 
Museum's own collectors, but bought at second-hand here in 
Copenhagen. I have, however, no doubt about their Greenland 
origin, and they are, I believe, the only specimens ever obtained 
there. One of them was brought from Greenland in 1858, and 
is said to have been shot at Julianehaab; about the other I 
know no particulars. 
t David Cranz, Fortsetzung der Historie von Gronland, p. 214. Barby 
iind Leipzig, 1770. % Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 1021. 
