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ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



Only one specimen of this bird was obtained, although I was fully 

 aware of the<lifterence between the two forms, aud consequently on the 

 lookout for both. 



I afterwards received from Kamtschatka three young birds col- 

 lected in the fall of 1884. The characters pointed out at once distin- 

 guishes them from incamis. 



Measurements. 



54. Numenitts phaBopus variegatus (Scop.). 



1786.— r«H/a?MS rariefjatus Scopoli, Delic. F. Fl. Insubr., II, p. 92 {ed. Newt.).— JN^w- 



meniusv. SEEB.,Ibi8, 1HH4, p. 34.— Blakist., Amend. ListB. Jap., p. 39(1884). 

 XlS^'.—Scolopax hizoniensis Gmel., Syst. Nat., I, p. 656.— AVweHius I. Swinh., P. Z. S., 



l-'Tl, p. 410. 

 1817.— Nnmeuius africapUlKH ViElLL., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VIII, p. 303. 

 18-2(). — Numenins phcpopus Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 109 {part). — Schleg., Mus. P. 



B. Grall.,p. 93(/>ar0.— SwiNH., Ibis, 1877, p. 146.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 



1878, p. 223.— /»■(/., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 198.— iirf., ihid., X, 1882, 



p. 116. 

 ISAO.—Numenius uropygialis Govi^n, P. Z. S., 1840, p. 175.— Swinh., Ibis, 1863, p. 409.— 



Id , ibid., 1866, p. 137.— Bogdan., Consp. Av. Ross., I, p. 84 (1884). 

 It^oG. —Nuynrhius lahitietibis Cassin, Exped. Jap. Perry, II, p. 228 (nee Gmel.).— Swinh., 



P.Z.S., 1«63, p. 318. 

 ISS^.—NumtniunmelaiiorhtinchiisT ACZAii., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1883, p. 340 (nee Bp., 



1856, qui ex Grcenlandia). 



The two specimens which I secured at Bering Island I have carefully 

 compared with specimens of typical phceopus from Europe, and with 

 numerous specimens of the eastern re[>resentative from China and 

 Japan, and also with a specimen in the National Museum, obtained from 

 Mr. Harting, and determined by him as N. luzoniensis. The characters 

 of the dark and strongly streaked rump and the barred under tail- 

 coverts are well developed, aud were it not that the occurrence of nu- 

 merous intermediate specimens have been recorded, I should consider 

 the two forms good and distinct species. 



