112 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



• Numenius arquatus arquatus (Linnaeus). European Curlew. [264.1.] 



Scolopux Arquata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 145. (in Europa = 

 Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from the British Isles to the plains of the Caucasus and 

 from the Scandinavian Peninsula and basin of the Volga to Holland. Winters 

 in South Africa, Madagascar, and India. Casual in the Faroes, Azores, 

 Iceland, and on both coasts of Greenland; ^ accidental in New York (Long 

 Island) .2 [A closely allied race occurs in Siberia.] 



Genus PHAEOPUS Cuvier. 



Phceopus Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 1817 [Dec. 7, 1816], 485. Type, by 

 tautonymy, Scolopax phaeopus Linnaeus. 



• Phaeopus phaeopus phaeopus (Linnaeus). Whimbrel. [267.] 



Scolopax Phaeopus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 146. (in Europa 

 = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Iceland, British Isles, northern Scandinavia, Finland, 

 and Russia north to the Arctic Circle. Winters in Africa and India; casually 

 north to Iceland. Occasional in Greenland (Arsuk, May 25, 1887) ; ^ accidental 

 in Nova Scotia (off Sable Island, May 23, 1906) " and New York (Long Island, 

 September 4, 1912). ^ 

 [A closely allied race occurs in eastern Asia.] 



Phaeopus tahitiensis (Gmelin). Bristle-thighed Curlew. [268.] 



Scolopax tahitiensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 656. Based on the 

 Otaheiti Curlew Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. i, 122. (in Tahiti 

 [Society Islands].) 



Range, — Occurs in summer and probably breeds in western Alaska from 

 the Kowak River to the Kenai Peninsula; non-breeding migrants linger all 

 summer on Laysan and Phoenix islands. Winters on islands of the South 

 Pacific from Hawaii to New Caledonia. 



Phaeopus hudsonicus (Latham). Hudsonian Curlew. [265.] 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham, Index Orn., II, 1790, 712. (in sinu 

 Hudsonis = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds on the coast of Alaska from the mouth of the Yukon 

 northward and locally east to northern Mackenzie and northern Manitoba 



1 Helms, Dansk. Orn. For. Tidssk., XI, Heft 3-4, Sept., 1917, 173. 



2 Marshall, Auk, IX, 1892, 390. 



3 Chamberlain, Auk, VI, 1889, 21. Has bred on southwest coast (Schiller) 

 * Brewster, Auk, XXVI, 1909, 190. 



5 Miller, Auk, XXXII, 1915, 226. 



