394 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



NUMENIUS AMERICANUS OCCIDENTALIS (V/oodhouse). 



LESSER LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 



Exactly like N. a. americanus in coloration, but smaller, especially 

 the bill. 



Adult male.— Wing, 253.5-287 (265.6); tail, 96-123.7 (108.6); 

 exposed culmen, 105.4-144.8 (121.1); tarsus, 69.8-81.5 (74.5); 

 middle toe, 35-41.5 (38.1).« 



Adult female. —Wing, 251.5-274.6 (268.5); tail, 104-116 (110.2): 

 exposed culmen, 118.1-170.7 (158.7); tarsus, 72.9-88.1 (82).° 



Northwestern United States and adjacent provinces of Canada, 

 northward to Manitoba (Red River; Souris River), Saskatchewan 

 (Crane Lake), Alberta (Jasper House), and eastern British Columbia, 

 formerly (at least casually) to Vancouver Island; breeding southward 

 to southern Oregon (Fort Klamath; Pendleton), Montana (Gallatin 

 Co.; Darnells; mouth of Milk River), Wyoming (Newcastle) and 

 South Dakota; migrating southward at least as far as southern Cali- 

 fornia (Huntington Beach, Orange Co., Aug. 22), New Mexico (near 

 Albuquerque), and Tamaulipas (Matamoros, Jan.).^ 



Numenius longirostris (not N. longirnstra Wilson) Swainson and Richardsox, 

 Fauna Bor. -Am., ii, 1831, 376 (Saskatchewan?; I^anks of Columbia River?). — 

 TowNSEND (.1. K.), Journ, Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United 

 States).— Cassin, Orn. U. S.Expl. Exped. (Wilkes), 1858, 315 (Oregon, etc.); 

 in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Siirv., ix, 1858, 743, part.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 549, part. — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1860, 245, part (Fort Dalles, C)regon; Simcoe and Yakima Valleys, 

 near Fort Steilacoom, and Shoalwater Bay, Washington). — Blakiston, Ibis, 

 1863, 134 ("fxir-coimtries"). — Feilner, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1864 

 (1865), 428 (Fort Crook, n. California).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 425 (Vancouver 

 Island).— CoUES, Check List, 1873, no. 441, part; 2nd ed., 1882, no. 643, 

 part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 508, part; Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 601 (upper 

 Missouri and Jililk River, Montana; nesting habits); Bull. U. S. Geol. and 

 Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 645 (Pembina and Buford, North Dakota).— 

 Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 92 (Blackfoot River, Idaho). — Seton, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 152 (Red River and Souris River, ^lanitoba, rare summer 

 resident). — Merrill (J. C), Auk, v, 1888, 145 (Fort Klamath, Oregon, 

 breeding). — Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 352, part (Fort Crook, 

 California; British Columbia; Powder River, Montana). 

 [Numenms] longirostris Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10247, part. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 262, part. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 146, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 158, part.— Forbes and 

 Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69 (near Ja.sper House, 

 Alberta). 

 N[umenius] longirostris Gambel, Journ. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila., 2dser.,i, 1849,223. 

 Numenius americanus (not of Bechstein) American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 368, part; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 124, 



O' Measurement sheets having been mislaid, the number of specimens measured 

 can not be stated. The series was, however, larger than that of N. a. americanus. 



b In all proba1)ility several of the Mexican records of "Numenius longirostris'' 

 pertain to this form. 



