BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 407 



Nlumeniiis] hwhonicus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 569. — Cabanis, in Schom- 



burgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 757. — Kidgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 



1874, 385 (Illinois); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 171.— Coues, Key N. Am. 



Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, G45. 

 Numeniua (Phxopus) hudsonicus Coue.s, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 235 



(Henley Harbor, Labrador). 

 Unemius [typog. error] hudsonicus McLenegan, Cruise 'Corwin' in 1884, 121 



(Kowak River, n. w. Alaska, breeding). 

 Numerius [typog. error] hudsonicus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zobl. Soc.Lond., 



1808, 570 (Peru). 

 Phieopus hudsonicus Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 108 (New 



Mexico). 

 [Phneopus] hudsonica Heine and Reiciienow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 326 



(Mexico). 

 Numcnlus phxopus var. hudsonica Pelzeln, Ibis, 1873, 121 (as to supposed type). 

 NumcniushudsoniusYiEihLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., viii, 1817, 304. — Allen, 



Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 87 (Massachusetts, migrant, winter). — Gtndlach, 



Journ. fur Orn., 1878, 161, 187 (Porto Rico); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 



vii, 1878, 307 (Porto Rico). 

 N[ii7nenius] hudsonius Holboll, Naturliist. Tidsskr., iv, 1843, 407 (Greenland). 

 Numenius melanopus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Nat., viii, 1817, 30(), part (North 



America; includes iVuincnius amcricanus). 

 Numenius ruftventris Vioor.s, Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, 356 (n. w. North America); 



Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' Birds, 1839, 28 (no locality given). — Baird, in Rep. 



Stansbury's Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 334 (Pacific coast. North America). 

 Numenius brasiliensis Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, pt. ii, 1833, 708 



(s. e. Brazil; type now in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.; see Allen, Bull. Am. 



Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 272). 

 Niimpniiis rnfus Vieillot, Gal. Ois., ii, 1834, 118, part (Hudson Bay: type now 



in coll. T^rit. Mus.: includes N. nmericanus). 

 Numenius inirrmedius Nvttall, Man. Orn. V . S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 



100 (North America). 

 Numenius phaeopus (not Scolopax phxopus JAnnaius) Cab.\kis, in Schomburgk's 



Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 757.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 308, 457. 



PHi5;OPUS TAHITIENSIS (Gmelin). 



BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW. 



Adults in hreeding season (sexes alike). — Pileiim with two broad 

 stripes of darl\; sooty brown (fuscous or clove brown), sli,2;hth' broken 

 by a few broad strenks of bufiy, separated, longitudinally, by a 

 narrower stripe of light buff, broadly streaked with dark sooty 

 brown, and bordered laterally by a broad superciliary stripe of light 

 bufl, narrowly strcalved witli dark sooty brown; hiiuhieck dull light 

 buff, rather broadly streaked with dark sooty browTi; general color 

 of upper parts dark brown (clove brown or fuscous) irregularly 

 spotted with buff, the lower back and rumj) nearly uniform dark 

 brown; primary coverts and primaries dusky (dark fuscous, nearly 

 fuscous-black on coverts), the outer webs of four to six inner prima- 

 ries with large spots of buff; shaft of outermost primary white, that 

 of the next whitish proximally, the others growing gradually deeper 



