344 CHAKADKima:. 



Numenius lineatus, Cuv. Reyne ■ Anim. i. p. 521 (1829 : India) ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 167 ; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 237 (1873: Sind) ; 

 Adam, t. c. p.. 396 (Sanibhur) ; Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1872, p. 417 

 (Kathiawar) ; Tacz. J. f. 0. 1873, p. 103, 1874, p. 336 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. ii. p. 296 (1874: Andamans, Aug. to April); Blyth Xf 

 Wald. B. Burm. p. 155 (1875: Arakan, Kyasoo Creek) ; Butler 8f 

 Hume, Str. F. iv. p. 16 (1876) ; Armstrong, t. c. p. 341 (Rangoon) ; 

 Hume, t. c. p. 464 (Laccadives) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i 

 p. 255 (1876); Hume $ Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 460 (1878); 

 Davidson fy Wenden, Str. F. vii. p. 89 (1878: Deccan) ; Hume, 

 op. cit. viii. p. 112 (1879) ; Scully, t. c. p. 356 (Nepal Valley) ; 

 Tiraut, Bull. Comite Ayric. et Industr. Cochinchine, (3) i. p. 156 

 (1879) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 62 (1879 : winter) ; id. Cat. 

 B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 76 (1880 : winter visitant) ; Leyge, B. Ceylon, 

 p. 906 (1880) ; Blukiston, Amended List B. Jap.'y. 39 (1884); 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 34 (Japan), p. 268 (Kiukiang) ; Hume, Str. 

 F. xi. p. 322 (1888 : Manipur) ; Everett, Journ. Straits Branch As. 

 Soc. 1889, p. 208 (Borneo) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, p. 59 (Palawan) ; 

 Sfyan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 331, 508 (Lower Yangtze, winter) ; De la 

 Touche, His, 1892, p. 501 (Foochow and Swatow, winter) ; Hartl. 

 Abhandl. nat. Yer. Bremen, xii. p. 299 (1893: Hainan); Styan, 

 Ibis, 1893, p. 437 (Hainan). 



Mumenius medius, Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl. p. 609 (1831); id. Nau- 

 mannia, 1855, p. 291. 



Numenius orientals s, Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl. p. 610 (1831). 



Numenius nasicus, Temm. Man. d!Orn. iv. p. 393 (1840). 



Cracticornis arquata, Gray, List Gen. p. 88 (1841). 



Numenius arquatula, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Grail. App. 

 tab. 45, no. 615 : id. in Gi-ay's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Mamm. fyc. Nepal pres. Hodys. p. 137 (1846). 



? Numenius hudsonicus (nee Lath.), Brehm, J.f. O. 1854, p. 81. 



Numenius assimilis, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 291. 



Numenius rufescens (nee Gould), Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 291. 



Numenius longirostris, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 291. 



Numenius tenuirostris (nee V.), Hevgl. Syst. Uebers. p. 62 (1856) ; 

 id. Lbis, 1859, p. 347 (Red Sea; Gulf of Suez; Arabia Petrsea; 

 Massaua, Aug. ; Gulf of Aden, Oct. to Dec). 



Numenius cassini, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1867, p. 398. 



Numenius arquatus, var. madagascariensis, Milne-Edicards fy 

 Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madagasc, Ois., p. 619, pi. ecliv. (1882). 



Numenius arquatus lineatus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 324 

 (1888) ; id. B. Japan. Emp. p. 314 (1890) ; Berez. § Btanchi, 

 Aves Gan-sti, p. 4 (lb91) ; Tacz. Faun. Orn. Siber. Orient, pt. ii. 

 p. 938 (1893). 



Numenius arquatus madagascariensis, Sibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 115 

 (Madagascar). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above brown, 

 with loDgitudinal black centres to the feathers imparting a broadly 

 striped appearance, the featbers of the upper surface being notched 

 with ashy or rufous, giving to many of the scapulars a somewhat 

 barred appearance ; wing-coverts dark brown, edged with whity 

 brown, the median and greater series also chequered with the latter 

 colour, imparting a somewhat barred appearance to this part of the 

 wing ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries blackish, 

 externally glossed with bottle-green, the primary-coverts slightly 

 tipped with white, the shafts of the outer primaries white, those of 





