BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 397 



237.7 in female; exposed culmen 73 in male, 78.8 in female; tarsus 55.5 in 

 male, 56.2 in female). (Eastern Asia, south to Malay Archipelago and 



Australia in winter.) Phaeopus pliaeopus variegatus (extraliuiital).a 



hb. Rump dark grayish brown, the feathers tipped with liglit huffy brown ;axillar8 

 and under wing-coverts vinaceous-buff, the former narrowly barred, the 

 latter irregularly marked, with dusky. (Northern North America, south to 



southern South America in migration.) Ph«eopus hudsonicus (p. 402). 



■aa. P'eathers of thighs with long, -bristle-like tips; tail light pinkish cinnamon (some- 

 times more or less shaded with grayish brown) broadly and sharply barred, or 

 banded, with dark grayish brown. (Western Alaska and islands of Pacific 

 Ocean, from Hawaii to New Caledonia; breeding range unknown.) 



Phagopus tahitiensis (p. 407). 



PHiEOPUS PHvEOPUS PH^OPUS (Linnaus). 



WHIMBREL. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike).- — Pilcum uniform dark grayish 

 brown (clove brown or fuscous) divided longitudinally by a narrow 

 median stripe of very pale buffy or dull buffy whitish, streaked more 

 or less with dark grayish broA\Ti and margined laterally by a broad 

 superciliary stripe of very pale buffy or dull buffy whitish, narrowly 

 streaked dark grayish brown; rest of sides of head, together with 

 neck (all round) very pale dull buffy or dull buffy whitish streaked 

 with grayish brown, the streaks broader on hindneck, much narrower 

 and more sharply defined on malar, suborbital, and auricular regions; 

 a more or less distinct broad stripe of deep grayish brown across lores 

 (from rictus to eye) and a narrower postocular streak; general color 

 of upper parts grayish brown, the interscapulars rather broadly (but 

 not sharply) margined with paler and slightly buffy grayish brown, 

 the scapulars similar but some of them (especially the longer ones) 

 with indistinct or not sharply defined paler marginal spots; lesser 

 wing-coverts narrowly margined with very pale grayish buffy or dull 

 bulTy whitish; middle and greater coverts spotted (marginall}^) and 

 more broadly margined with dull buffy whitish, the secondaries tipped 



« Tantalus variegatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., ii, 1786, 92 (Luzon Island, 

 Philippines; based on Le Courlis tachete de VIsle de LuQon Sonnini, Voy. N. Guin., 

 1776, 85, pi. 48). — Numenius variegatus Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genov.. xviii, 1882, 330; 

 Orn. Papuasia, etc., iii, 1882, 332; Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, 1913, pi. [145] 

 facing p. 176. — Numenius phxopus variegatus Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 

 1885, 138 (Bering Island, Kamchatka); Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 1880, 330; 

 Birds Japan. Empire, 1890, 317. — [Nujneyiius phxopus.]Suhsp. a A'umenius variegatus 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 361. — Phxopus phxopus variegatus Mathews, 

 Birds Australia, iii, pt. 2, May 2, 1913, 176. — [Scolopax] bizoniensis Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 656 (Luzon Island, Philippines; based on Luzonian Curlero 

 Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, iii, pt. 1, 1785, 122) .—[Numenius] luzoniensis Latham, 

 Index Zool., ii, 1790, 711. — Numenius atricapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 viii, 1817, 303 (Luzon). — Numenius uropygialis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, 

 175 (s. coast Australia); Birds Australia, vi, 1848, pi. 43 and text; Dresser, Birds 

 Europe, viii, 1873, 245; Ramsay, Tab. List Birds Australia, 1888, 20. 



