Plate CCXXXVII. Male.
Bill little more than twice the length of the head, brownish-black,
base of lower mandible flesh-coloured; upper part of head deep brown,
with a central and two lateral lines of whitish; a brown line from the
bill to the eye, and another behind the latter; neck all round pale
yellowish-grey, longitudinally streaked with brown, excepting the
upper part of the throat, which is greyish-white; upper parts in
general blackish-brown, marked with numerous spots of brownish-white,
there being several along the margins of each feather; wings and rump
somewhat lighter; upper tail-coverts and tail barred with dark brown
and olivaceous grey; primaries and their coverts blackish-brown, all
with transverse yellowish-grey markings on the inner web, the shaft of
the first quill white, of the rest brown; breast and abdomen
greyish-white, the sides tinged with cream-colour and barred with
greyish-brown.
_Male_, 18, 33.
Passes from Texas northward, returning in autumn. Abundant in the
middle districts at both periods. Breeds at Hudson's Bay, and farther
north.
Esquimaux Curlew, Scolopax borealis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii.
p. 92.
Numenius hudsonicus, Bonap. Syn. p. 314.
Numenius hudsonicus, Hudsonian Curlew, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 377.
Esquimaux Curlew, Numenius hudsonicus, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p.
97.
Hudsonian Curlew, Numenius hudsonicus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 283; v. v. p. 589.