BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 395 



part.— Saunders, Auk, xxviii, IttlJ, 35 (Gallatin ('o., Montana, breeding). — 



Brooks, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 37 (Cliilliwack, Brit. Columbia, April). — 



Dice, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 43 (near Prescott, s. e. Washington, breeding). 

 Numineus occidentalis Woodhouse, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1852, 194 



(Rio Grande, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug. 20, 1851; type formerly 



in U. S. Nat. Mus.; destroyed in 1888). 

 Numenius occidentalis Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves' Rep. Expl. Zufii and ('ol. 



R., 1853, 98, pi. 6 (descr.). 

 Niimenws amerkanus parvxis Bishop, Auk, xxvii, Jan., 1910, 59 (Crane Lake, 



Saskatchewan; coll. L. B. Bishop). — Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Mata- 



moros, Tamaulipas, Jan.). 



The following references may pertain to either N. a. americanus or 

 N. a. occidentalis, examination of specimens being necessary to 

 determine their proper allocation: 



Numenius longirostris Liciitenstein, Preis-Vorz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 3; Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1863, 59 (reprint).— Vigors, Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' Birds, 1839, 28.— 

 Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1855, 315 (New Mexico); xi, 1859, 108 

 (NeAV Mexico) .—Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 178 (City of Mexico). — 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1865, 190 (Guatemala); 1866, 197 (Chiapam and Dueiias, Guate- 

 mala).— Coues, Ibis, 1865, 165 (Arizona); 1866, 269 (s. California); Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 98 (Fort Whipple, Arizona). — Cooper, 

 Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 298 (Great Falls, Montana).— ^Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. 

 Bremen, i, 1870, 363 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1873, 456 (Mexico: Guatemala). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. n., ii, 1874, 309 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa): Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 

 48 (Juchitan, Oaxaca, Feb.). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 

 1886, 179 (Puebla).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 352, part 

 (Chihuahua, Jan.; San Bias, Tepic, April 28; City of Mexico: Zacatecas, 

 Aug.: Cozumel Island; Duenas, Guatemala: San Diego, California), 753 (Can- 

 ada: California). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Ceutr. -Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 364 

 (Matamoros, Tamaulipas: Rio Guerrero, Chihuahua; San Bias, Tepic; Zaca- 

 tecas: Mazatlan, Sinaloa: Guanajuato; Guadalajara, Jalisco: Valley of Mexico; 

 Juchitan, Oaxaca; Laguna de San Baltazan, Puebla; Cozumel Island; Duenas 

 and ( hiapam, Guatemala) .^Miller (W. DeW.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 xxii, 1906, 162 (Rancho Santuario, n. w. Durango, Feb.). 



N[ume7}i.vs] longirostris Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 88 (descr., etc.). 



Genus PHv^OPUS Cuvier. 



Curlirius Rafinesque, Anal, de la Nature, 1815, 17 (nomen nudum). 

 Phxopns Cuvier, R^gne Anim., i, 1817 (1816), 485. (Type, by tautonymy, Scolo- 

 pax phxopus Linn.Teus.) 



Large Scolopacidae (wing 211-267 mm.) resembling Numenius, 

 but with relatively shorter and stouter and more abruptly decurved 

 bill, the exposed culmen shorter than tarsus and middle toe; tarsus 

 less than twice as long as middle toe without claw, and tail longer 

 than tarsus with middle toe. 



Bill shorter than tarsus and middle toe, straight or nearly so for 

 basal half, rather abruptly decurved terminally, slightly compressed, 

 the tip very slightly expanded; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally 

 linear (slit-like), pervious: nasal groove distinct for more than basal 



