1108. Australian Curlew.
NUMENIUS CYANOPUS.
Numenius cyanopus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. viii. p. 306 (1817) ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 315 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 350 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. O. p. 940 ; N. australis, Gould, P.Z.S. 1837, p. 155 ; id. B. of Austr, vi. pl. 42 ; N. major (nec. Steph.), Temm, and Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, pl. 66 ; N. tahitiensis (nec. Gmel.), Swinhoe, P.Z.S. 1871, p. 410 ; Ridgway, p. 171 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 458.
Male ad. (China). Differs from N. arquatus in having the rump and upper tail-coverts conspicuously marked with brown, and the upper and under parts washed with warm vinous buff or rufous buff ; under wing- coverts and axillaries broadly barred with blackish brown. Culmen 7.8, wing 13.0, tail 5.4, tarsus 3.3 inch.
Hab. Eastern Siberia, north to Kamchatka ; Japan, Corea, and China ; passing the winter as far south as Australia ; of rare occurrence in Alaska.
It is said not to differ from our European Curlew in its general habits. Nothing, however, appears to be known respecting its nidification.
1108. Numenius cyanopus
BookTitle:
A Manual Of Palaearctic Birds
Reference:
Dresser, Henry Eeles. A Manual of Palaearctic Birds. Vol. 2. 1903.
Title in Book:
1108. Numenius cyanopus
CatNo:
1108
Year:
1903
Page No:
804
Common name:
Australian Curlew
M_ID:
4274
M_CN:
Far Eastern Curlew
M_SN:
Numenius madagascariensis
Volume:
Vol. 2
Term name:
id:
9985
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