ENGR OFDW Cll ONE
Family TANTALID A,

Genus Faucineiivs.

266. FaucinELLUS IGNEUS : ; : : : é Vor Ve Ri Xi ville

Guossy Ists.

This bird has a wide range, being found in Europe, India, Africa, and Australia. Accidental in Britain.

Family SCOLOPACID®.

Under this family name I shall, like Mr. Harting, include many forms of strand- and marsh-loving birds,

beginning with the Curlews and ending with the Snipes.

Genus NumeEntvs.

The birds of this form will be found described in all general histories of birds under the trivial names of
Curlews and Whimbrels. One or other of the species are distributed over every country of the entire globe.
In Britain we have two very distinct kinds, to which a third, a straggler from America, has just been added :
here, however, it will ouly receive a passing’ notice.

267. NuMENIUS ARQUATA , : : : : ; : : : : Vol. IV. Pl. XLVI.
CurLEw.

Resident and universally dispersed. Lives much on the sea-shore during winter, and in summer resorts

to heathery hills and wastes for the purpose of breeding.

268. NuMENIUS PHXOPUS . : : : ; ‘ : : ; : Vol lve Pie XCCIXe
WHIMBREL.

A spring and autumn visitant, leaving us at the former period for regions further north, whither it proceeds

to breed.

269. NuMENIUS BOREALIs.
Esquimaux Curlew.
This bird has been shot in this country about four times; being, however, purely an American species, it

is not figured.

Genus Limosa.

Godwits, like Curlews, are all but universally dispersed over the sea-shores and marshes of every country.