. A history of British birds . 512 LIMICOLM. scolopacidj:. NuMENius BOREALis (J. R. Forster*). ESKIMO CURLEW. Numenius horeaUs. A COMMUNICATION to the Linneaii Society of London inNovember, 1855, announced the first recorded occurrence ofthis American Curlew in Britain. This bird was killed onthe 6th September, 1855, in the parish of Durris, Kincardine-shire, at the top of a hill on the muir, belonging to Durris,called Car-monearn, one of the Grampian range, sometwelve hundred feet above sea-level, by Mr. W. R. CussackSmith. The bird was sent to be preserved by Mr. Mitchell,Aber
. A history of British birds . 512 LIMICOLM. scolopacidj:. NuMENius BOREALis (J. R. Forster*). ESKIMO CURLEW. Numenius horeaUs. A COMMUNICATION to the Linneaii Society of London inNovember, 1855, announced the first recorded occurrence ofthis American Curlew in Britain. This bird was killed onthe 6th September, 1855, in the parish of Durris, Kincardine-shire, at the top of a hill on the muir, belonging to Durris,called Car-monearn, one of the Grampian range, sometwelve hundred feet above sea-level, by Mr. W. R. CussackSmith. The bird was sent to be preserved by Mr. Mitchell,Aberdeen, and was examined a few days after by Mr. , jun., who ascertained it to be the Eskimo Cur-lew (Numenius borealis). Unluckily it was not measuredwhen in the flesh, and the sex was not observed ; but itappeared to be a female, in almost complete winter livery. * Scolopax horeaUs, J. R. Forster, Phil. Trans. Ixii. pp. 411,431 (1772). Scohpax borealis is the American Whimbrel (.V. hiidsonicus). ESKIMO CURLEW. 513 Mr. N. F. Hele, in bis Notes about Al
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