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ESQUIMAUX CURLEW.                    127
irostris, not recognising in them the N. borealis
this bird Esquimaux Curlew, it would perhaps
nn this name altogether, and give this one the
name of Short-billed Curlew, although this as
appellation has been misapplied. As for the
name, this also might be disputed. Borealis
Gmtflin tn the Hndqnoninn Cuiirlew. hut as he
called them Scolopax, we have preferred retaining the appellation
of Latham, who is admirably correct with respect to the Curlews,
being only wrong perhaps in the choice of the name, and certainly
in the citation of Gmelin. As for Temminck, in declaring that
the new species of Lichtenstein differs essentially from Latham's
N. borealis, (a fact which was doubted by the accurate German
himself,) he must have had in view our X. hudsonicus, Lath., the
Scolopax borealis of Gmelin.
We can form no opinion on the N. rufiventris of Vigors, a
supposed new Curlew from the Northi West Coast: the diagnosis
is certainly inconclusive, not embracing the essential characters;
and establishes no difference between it and N. hudsonicus, of
which it also has the size.
The N. madagascariensis of Brisson forms a seventh species of
Xumenius peculiar to Southern Africa and Oceanica, allied to the
arquata and longirostris: it is figured on the pl. enl. 198 of Buffon.
We do not know either N. virgatus, or N. lineatus of Cuvier, but
one of them at all events will have to be referred to the madagas-
cariensis.