BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 385 



Actitis bartrami Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., viii, 1836, 43, pi. 196; xiii, 1847, 238. — 



ScHLEr.EL, Rev. Grit., 1844, p. xcii. 

 A[ctitis] bartrami Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. Ixxiii, 212. 

 Actiturus bartrami Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 92. 

 Totanus variegatus Vietllot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 397 (South 



America; Antilles); Gal. Ois., ii, 1834, 107, pi. 239. 

 Totanus melanopygius Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 401 (central 



United States; Louisiana). 

 Bartramia laticauda Lesson, Traits d 'Orn., 1831, 553 (new name for Tringa hartra- 



?nia Wilson). — Allen, Froc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 78. 

 Totanus campestris Vielliot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 400 (Paraguay, 



based on Chorlito ribetos blancos acanaledos Azara, Apunt., p. iii, 312). — Hart- 



LAUB, Syst. Index Azara's Apunt., 1847, 25. 

 T[ota)ms] campestris Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., iii, 1823, 1098. 

 Pavoncella pugnax (not Tringa pugnax Linnseus) Macoun, Cat. Canad. Birds, 1900, 



177, part (see Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 450). 



Genus NUMENIUS Brisson. 



Numenius Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 311. (Type, by tautonymy. [Numenius\ 



numenius Brb?on= Scnlopax arquata Linnaeus.) 

 Neomcniuso- (emendation) Billbero, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pars 2, 1828, tab. 



A and p. 159. 

 Cracticornis Gray, List Gen. and Subgen. Birds, 1841, 88. (Type, Scolopax 



arquata linnajus.) 



Very large Scolopacidae (wing more than 250 (251-308) mm.) with 

 the long, slender, and distinctly arched or decurved bill longer than 

 tarsus and middle toe, more than half as long as wing; tarsus more 

 than twice as long as middle toe without claw, and tail shorter than 

 tarsus and middle toe. 



Bill very long, slender, strongly and regularly decurved from, or 

 posterior to, middle portion, the exposed culmen longer than tarsus 

 and middle toe, longer than tail, more than half as long as wing, 

 narrow(^r than deep (except terminally), the tip (of both maxilla and 

 mandi1:)le) slightly expanded; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally linear, 

 pervious; nasal groove distinct for basal half, or less, only, quite 

 obsolete terminally; loral and malar antia3 on same vertical line, the 

 mental antia slightly posterior to anterior end of nostril, the frontal 

 antia forming a more or less concave (sometimes nearly straight) line 

 across base of culmen; wing ample, pointed, the outermost primary 

 longest and exceeding distal secondaries by nearly to quite half the 

 length of wing; tertials elongated, but tips of the longest faUing con- 

 siderably short of tips of longest primaries; tail about two-fifths as 

 long as wing or slightly less, slightly but distinctly rounded; rectrices 

 12; tarsus a little more than one-fourth as long as wing, more than 

 twice as long as middle toe without claw, scuteUate anteriorly, covered 

 with hexagonal scales posteriorly; bare portion of tibia about as long 



a NeoMiyi'i", nova luna, abfonnam rostri derivatum videtur. (Billberg.) 

 40017— 1&— Bull. 50, pt S 26 



