Plate CCXXXI. Male and Female.
Bill more than four times the length of the head, nearly straight to
the middle, beyond which it is slightly decurved, deep brown, toward
the base dark flesh-coloured; feet light greyish-blue; general ground
colour of the plumage light yellowish-red; the head marked with oblong
spots; the back with spots and bars of brownish-black; alula and outer
web of first four quills deep brown, the rest of the quills of the
general colour, barred on both webs with dark brown, as are the
tail-feathers; upper part of throat and lower eyelid whitish; neck
marked with longitudinal lines of brownish-black; sides barred with
the same, as are the lower larger wing-coverts; the rest of the lower
parts unspotted, the sides and lower wing-coverts of a richer
yellowish-red than the rest. The bill varies from seven to nine
inches.
_Male_, 26, 40.
Resident, and breeds in the Texas and on the Islands off South
Carolina. Stragglers go far north. Columbia River. Occasionally seen
in the interior.
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longirostris, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
viii. p. 23.
Numenius longirostris, Bonap. Syn. p. 314.
Numenius longirostris, Long-billed Curlew, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 376.
Long-billed Curlew, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 94.
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longirostris, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
iii. p. 240; v. v. p. 587.