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.
359. 3. Numenius borealis, Lath. Esquimaux Curlew.
Plate CCVIII. Male and Female.
Bill half as long again as the head, slender, brownish-black, the lower mandible flesh-coloured at the base; upper part of head brownish-black, streaked with pale yellowish-brown, and having an indistinct central and two lateral lines of whitish; upper parts brownish-black, marked with numerous spots of light brownish-yellow, there being several along the margin of each feather; wing-coverts and secondaries of a lighter tint, similarly spotted; alula, primary quills, and coverts, dark brown, the shaft of the first quill white, of the rest brown; inner webs not barred as in N. Hudsonicus; tail barred with light greyish-brown and dark brown; sides of head and neck all round pale yellowish-grey, striped with dark brown; breast and sides greyish-yellow, with longitudinal and transverse dark markings; lower wing-coverts and tail-coverts similarly barred, axillars of a rufous buffy tint, regularly banded.
Male, 141/2, 273/8.
Passes in spring from Texas along the coast eastward to the Fur Countries, returning in autumn. Abundant at times in the Middle Atlantic Districts. Rarely seen in the interior. Breeds in the northern barren grounds.
Numenius borealis, Bonap. Syn. p. 314.
Numenius borealis, Esquimaux Curlew, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 378.
Esquimaux Curlew, Numenius borealis, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 101.
Esquimaux Curlew, Numenius borealis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 69; v. v. p. 590.