41. NUMENIT/S. 351 



xxxi. p. 767 (1881 : Sumba) ; Blakist. $ Pryer, B. Jap. p. 115 



(1882 : Yezo ; Eturop ; Yokohama) ; Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Boss. 



p. 82 (1884 : Bering Isl. ; Kamtchatka) ; Seel/ohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 34 ; 



Tacz. Bull. Sue. Zool. France, 1 885, p. 475. 

 Nnmeniua major («« Steph.), Temm. $ Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 110, pi. 6G 



(1850); Iteichenb. Grail, Nooit. tab. lvi. fig. 2564 (1851); Sioinh. 



Ibis, 1861, p. 343 (Pekin); id, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 318 (S. China; 



Formosa, winter); id, Ibis, 1876, p. 334 (Hakodadi) ; Blakist. fy 



Pryer, B. Jap. p. 115 (1882 : Hakodadi) ; Vorderm. N. T. Nederl. 



Ind. xliv. p. 204 (1884: Java), xlix. p. 416 (1889 : Sumatra). 

 Numenius rostratus, Licht., teste Bp. C. P. xliii. p. 597 (1856). 

 Numenius australasianus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 364 (E. Gilolo) ; 



Finsch, Xeu-Guinea, p. 182 (1865). 

 Numenius rufescens, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 286 (Formosa) ; Sioinh. 



Ibis, 1863, p. 410 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 318 (N. Formosa, breeding) ; 



Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 60 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 42, 



no. 10243 (1871) ; Dresser, B. Fur. viii. p. 245 (1873). 

 Numenius tahitiensis (nee G?n.), Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 410 



(Pekin; Formosa) ; Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, p. 104 (E. Siberia): id. 



Bull. Soc. Zool, France, i. p. 254 (1876) ; David Sf Oust. Ois. 



Chine, p. 458 (1877). 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Similar to N. arquatus and of 

 the same size, but distinguished by the dark lower back and rump 

 and the regular barring of the axillaries and under wing-coverts. 

 The general appearance is more fulvous ; the under surface is tinged 

 with vinous buff all over ; the lower back and rump are sandy 

 buff with blackish-brown centres to the feathers, thus greatly 

 resembling the rest of the back ; the upper tail-coverts barred with 

 blackish brown and sandy buff or white : " bill black, flesh-coloured 

 at the base of the lower mandible ; feet bluish grey ; iris dark 

 brown " (L. TaczanowsTci). Total length 24 inches, culmen 7*2, 

 wing 12-5, tail 4-6, tarsus 3-46. 



Adidt male. In this species the difference in size between the 

 sexes is not so apparent as in some of the allied ones. Total length 

 21 inches, culmen 6-8, wing 11 9, tail 4-3, tarsus 3 - 2. 



Young. Much more tawny than the adults and having tawny-buff 

 bars or notches on the innermost secondaries ; the streaks on the 

 under surface very fine and narrow. 



Adults in winter plumage do not differ very much from the 

 summer plumage, but the under surface is much less distinctly 

 streaked ; the upper surface is very similar at both times of year. 



Hah. Breeds in Eastern Siberia, and winters as far south as 

 Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Upper TJssuri, April 4 (Ja?i- Seebohm Coll. 



kowsky) . 



b, c. Ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan, May. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 

 d,e,f. lmm.sk. Yokohama, Japan (H. Seebohm Coll. 



Pryer) . 

 g. $ juv. sk. Hakodadi, Sept. 25 (H. Gould Coll. 



White///). 

 h, i. Jad.sk. Xegros, Philippine Isl., Feb. E. L. Moselev, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 A-. Ad. sk. Dumaguete, Feb. E. L. Moseley, Esq. 



