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Numenivs lineatus Cuvier, Regne Anim., i, 1829, 521 (India). — Hume, Stray 



Feath., i, 1873, 237 (Sind); ii, 1874, 296 (Andaman Islands, Aug. to April); 

 iv,1876, 404 (Laccadives); xi, 1888, 322 (Manipur). — Adaji, Stray Feath., i, 



1873, 39G (Sambhur).— Lloyd, Ibis, 1S72, 417 (Kathiawar).— Blyth and 

 Walden, Birds Burma, 1875, 155 (Arakan; Kyasoo Creek). — Armstrong, 



Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 341 (Rangoon). — Davidson and Wenden, Stray 



Feath., vii, 1878, 89 (Deccan).— Scully, Stray Feath., \T.i, 1878, 350 (Nepal 



Valley).— Butler, Cat. Bii-ds Sind, etc., 1870, 62 (winter); Cat. Birds S. 



Bombay Pres., 1880, 76 (winter \isitant).— Legge, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 906.— 



Blakiston, Amended List Birds Japan, 1884, 39.^ — Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, 



34 (Japan), 268 (Kiuldang, China). — Everett, Journ. Straits Branch Asiat. 



Soc, 1889, 208 (Borneo).— Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, 59 (Palawan Island, 



Philippines). — Styan, Ibis, 1891, 331, 508 (lower Yangtse River, winter); 



1893, 437 (Hainan).— De La Touche, Ibis, 1892, 501 (Foochow and Swa- 



tow, China, winter). 

 Numenivs arquatus lineatus Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Ckaradriidse, 1887, 324; Birds 



Japanese Emp., 1890, 314. — Taczanowski, Faun. Orn. Siber. Orient., pt. ii, 



1893, 938. 

 Nitmenius medius Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 609 (Germany); Vogelf., 1855, 303 



(Greece; Germany); Naumannia, 1855, 291. 

 Numenius orientalis Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 610 (East Indies); Vogelf., 



1855, 302; Naumannia, 1855, 291. 

 Numenius nasicus Temminck, Man. d'Orn., iv, 1840, 393 (Borneo; Sumatra). 

 Niimenius arqualula Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 86 (Nepal, India; 



type in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Gray, Cat. Mam., etc., Nepal pres. Hodgson, 



1846, 137. 

 (?) Numenius hvdso7UHS (not of Latham) Brehm, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 81 



(Charthum, Sudan). 

 Numenius assimilis Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 302 (s. Germany): Naumannia, 1855, 



291. 

 Numenius rufescens (not of Gould) Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 302 (a. Europe; n. 



Africa); Naumannia, 1855, 291. 

 Numenius longirostris (not of Wilson) Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 303 (s. Europe; 



Africa, winter); Naumannia, 1855, 291. 

 Numenius tenuirostris (not of Vieillot) Heuglin. Syst. Ueb., 1856, 62: Ibis, 1859, 



347 (Red Sea; Gulf of Suez; Arabia Petraea; Massaua, Aug.: Gulf o^ Aden, 



Oct. to Dec). 

 Numenius cassvni Swinhoe, Ibis, 2nd ser.,iii, Oct., 1867, 398 (Amoy, China; coll. 



R. Swinhoe). 



NUMENIUS AMERICANUS AMERICANUS Bechstein. 



LONG-BILLED CtTRLEW. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — General color light pinkish cinna- 

 mon, the head (except chin and throat, which are much paler), neck 

 (all round), and chest streaked with dusky grayish brown, the streaks 

 much broader and more blackish on pileum; back and scapulars 

 striped and barred with dusky grayish brown, the median portion of 

 each feather du>sky, from which dusky bars are projected, across each 

 web, to the margin, producing a coarse "herring-bone" pattern; 

 smaller wing-coverts with a median broad cuneate streak of dusky 

 grayish brown, the greater coverts, together with secondaries, nar- 



