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Plate XXVI. Fig. 3 . 
Numenius borealis , Lath. /ntZ. II, p. 712, sp. 9, (not of Ord, which is N hudsonicus .) 
Nob. Obs. Wils. Orn. notes. Id. Cat. and Syn. birds U. S. sp. 244. Id. Monogr. 
Num. in Osserv. Cuv. R'egn. An. Id. Sp. comp. Rom. Phil. sp. Phil. 187. 
Scolopax borealis , Forst. Phil. Trans. LXII, p. 431, (not of Gmel. &c. which is 
Numenius hudsonicus .) 
Numenius brevirostris, Licht. Cat. II, Vog. p. 75, sp. 774. Temm. pi. col. 381. 
Numenius cinereus , Sea-side lesser Curlew , Bartr. Trav. p. 292. 
Courlis dtmi-bec , Temm. loc. cit. 
Chorlilo champetre? Azara, IV, p. 275, sp. 307. 
Esquimaux Curlew , Lath. Gen. Syn. V, p. 125. Lath. Gen. Hist. IX, p. 180, sp. 10. 
Forster, loc. cit. not of Pennant, which is N. hudsonicus. 
American Museum at New York. 
In Wilson’s standard work are described but two species of 
Curlew, and no more than this are given by Temminck in his 
very complete and excellent European Ornithology. We have 
brought forward three North American and three European 
species, which, contrary to the generally received opinion, are all 
distinct from each other, and different in both continents, not one 
being found in Europe that is also an inhabitant of America. 
These facts, independent of any reference to the almost intermi¬ 
nable confusion pervading the works of preceding authors, will 
sufficiently justify us in repeating here and stating with more 
details what we have published in our Monography; in which, if 
no new species be introduced, (and the list is already too long,) 
we hope to have placed the old ones in a new and more advan¬ 
tageous light. 
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