

41. NUMENIUS. 353 



J. f. O, 1875, p. 320 (Cuba) ; Hensh. Rep. Zool. Evpl. 100</t 

 Merid. p. 461 (1875: St. Charles, R. Colorado); Lawr. Bull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. iv. p. 48 (1876: Tehuantepec, Dec); Sennett, Bull. 

 U.S. Geul. Surv. iv. p. 55 (1878 : Brownsville) ; Cones, t. c. p. 645 

 (Dakota); Lawr. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 197 (1878: St. 

 Vincent) ; Belding, t. c. p. 441 (California) ; Lawr. t. c pp. 451, 

 488 (Guadeloupe) ; Maynard, B. East. N. Amer. p. 398 (1879) ; 

 Ridyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 201 (1880) ; A. Sf E. Newton, 

 Handb. Jamaica, p. 116 (1881); Cones, Chech-list N. Amer. B. 

 p. 104 (1882); Belding, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 545 (1883: 

 Lower California) ; Baird, Brewer, § Ridyw. Water-Birds N. 

 Amer. i. p. 311 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 645 

 (1884) ; Cory, List B. West Lid. p. 27 (1885) ; Turner, Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. viii. p. 248 (1885: Labrador); Drew, Auk, ii. p. 18 

 (1885 : Colorado) ; Lawr. t. c. p. 273 (Long Isl.) ; Agersb. t. c. 

 p. 286 (Dakota) ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 158 (1886) ; 

 Everman, Auk, iii. p. 92 (1886 : Ventura Co., California) ; Seton, 

 t. c. p. 152 (Manitoba) ; Scott, t. c. p. 380 (Tucson, Arizona) ; 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus. ix. p. 179 (1886: State of 

 Puebla) ; Lloi/d, Auk, iv. p. 186(1887: Western Texas) ; Cory, 

 t. c p. 320; Towns. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 199 (1887 : Upper 

 Sacramento Valley, California) ; Beckh. t. c. p. 637 (Bexar Co., 

 Texas), p. 653 (San Autonio) ; Merrill, Auk, v. p. 145 (1888: 

 Fort Klamath) ; Seebohm, Geoyr. Distr. Charadr. p. 327 (1888) ; 

 Scott, Auk, vi. p. 158 (1889 : Tarpon Springs) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 179 (Cozumel Isl.); Cory, B. West Ind. p. 241 (1889); 

 Thompson, Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 505 (1890: Manitoba); 

 Warren, B. Pennsylv. p. 95 (1890) ; Merriam, N. Amer. Faun. 

 no. 5, p. 92 (1891 : 'Idaho) ; Scott, Auk, ix. p. 14 (1892 : Jamaica), 

 p. 21 2 (Caloosahatchie Region) ; Attwater, t. c. p. 232 (San Antonio) ; 

 Mackay, t. c. p. 350 (Massachusetts) ; Lawr. t. c. p. 354 (Gray's 

 Harbour, Washington) ; Anthony, t. c. p. 360 (New Mexico) ; Cory, 

 Cat. B. West Ind. p. 94 (1892: Greater and Lesser Antilles); 

 Butcher, Auk, x. p. 272 (1893 : Long Isl.). 



Numenius melanopus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'HUt. Nat. viii. p. 306 (1817 : 

 N. America). 



Long-billed Curlew, Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 94 (1834). 



Numenius occidentalis, Woodh. Proc. Acad. Nat. Set. Philad. 1852. 

 p. 194 (Rio Grande, New Mexico). 



Numenius (Numenius) longirostris, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philad. 1861, p. 235 (Labrador). 



Adult male in breedin<i-phin<age. General colour above brown 

 varied -with rufous, all the feathers blackish brown in the centre, 

 notched and barred with cinnamon-rufous ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts like the rest of the back ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater scries barred with blackish brown 

 and cinnamon ; primary-coverts blackish brown tipped with pale 

 cinnamon ; primaries blackish brown, the shaft of the first pure 

 white, the shafts of all the other quills cinnamon-rufous, with which 

 colour the inner primaries are broadly but irregularly barred ; the 

 secondaries cinnamon, regularly barred with dusky brown; the 

 innermost secondaries like the back, and more ashy brown instead 

 of rufous ; tail cinnamon-rufous, regularly barred across with duskv 

 brown, the bars being nine or ten in number-, head and neck pale 

 cinnamon-rufous, longitudinally streaked with brown, morcnarrowlv 



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