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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Advltfeinale.—Wmg, 240-267 (252.4); tail, 92-102 (97.1); exposed 

 culmen, 84-95.5 (91.5); tarsus, 54-61 (57.9); middle toe, 34-38.5 

 (35.9).« 



Breeding along Arctic coast of North America, from mouth of 

 Yukon River, Alaska, to Franklin Bay, etc., Mackenzie; migrating 

 southward, chiefly along Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North Amer- 

 ica, through West Indies, Mexico, Central America and greater part 

 of South America to Galapagos archipelago (Albemarle, Charles, 

 Chatham, Hood, Indefatigable, James, and Narborough islands), 

 southern Chile (Province of Santiago; Vina del Mar, near Valparaiso, 

 and Aranca, Tarapaca; island of Chiloe; Talcahuano), and Brazil 

 (Para; Cajutuba; coast of Piauhy); casual or occasional on Pribilof 

 Islands, Bermudas (August) and in southern Greenland (Godthaab; 

 Julianshaab; Jacobshavn; Fiskenaesset) ; accidental in Iceland, 

 England, and Spain. 



[Scolopax] borealis (not of Forster, 1772) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 654, 

 excl. synonymy, part. 



Scolopax borealis Wilson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 22, pi. 56, fig. 1. 



Numenius borealis (not of Latham, 1790) Ord, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., vii, 1824, 

 p. — . — Brewer, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1840, 47;?, part (excl. synonymy, 

 etc.). 



[Numenius] hudsonicus Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 712 (Hudson Bay; based on 

 Eskimaux Curlew Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, no. 364, pi. 19; Hudsonian Curlew 

 Latham, Synopsis Birds, Suppl., i, 1787, 243). — Reinhardt, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1854, 440 (Greenland).— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10248.— Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Bii'ds, 1872, 262.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 146.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 27.— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899^ 158. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp 

 Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69. 



Numenius hudsonicus Bonaparte, Obs. Nom. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826 [242]; 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 314; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49.— Swainson 



« Eleven specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 1 ®"^ 



Tar- 



Middle- 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Hudson Bay (Moose Factory, July) 



Five adult males from Atlantic coast United States (migrants) 



Three adult males from Alaska (breeding) 



One adult male from California (migrant) 



Two adult males from Lower California (La Paz), migrants 



One adult male from Galapagos Islands (migrant) 



FEMALES. 



Five adult females from South Carolina (migrants) 



Two adult females from Barbuda, West Indies (migrants) 



One adult female from Alaska (breedmg) 



One adult female from Washington (migrant) 



Two adult females from California (migrants) 



235 

 235 

 244 

 245 

 235 

 257 



247.4 



246 



260 



262 



262.5 



89.2 

 94.3 

 97 

 91 

 101 



94.2 

 100.2 



98 

 102 



98. 5 



87.6 

 74.3 

 91 



81.5 

 84 



90.2 

 95 

 85 . 

 95.5 

 92.5 



54 



54 



55.8 



61 



57 



58 



57 



57.7 

 58 

 58.5 

 60.2 



36 



34.4 



34.3 



35. 5 



36 



36.5 



34.7 



36.2 



35 



37 



38.2 



