362 CHAKADEI1D.E. 



(1871 : Pekin) ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 245 (1873) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 52 (Bruit, Nov.) ; Cab. Sf Reichen. J.f. O. 1876, p. 327 ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. ix. pp. 48 ("Yule Isl.), 63 (1876 : 

 Sanghir), x. p. 164 (1877 : Sorong) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 113, 

 (Duke of York Isl.), 557 (Admiralty Isl.) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 61 (1877 : Cape Grenville ; Cape York ; Sue Isl. ; 

 Bet Isl. ; Long Isl. ; Darnley Isl.) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 504 (1877) ; Castelnau $ Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. 

 p. 385 (Gulf of Carpentaria); Ramsay, t. c. p. 394 (1877: Pt. 

 Moresby), ii. p. 198 (1878), iii. p. 296 (1879), iv. p. 101 (1880) ; 

 Rosenb. Malay. Arch. pp. 373, 390 (1879) ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1878, 

 pp. 90 (Ki Isl.), 100 (Aru Isl.) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 14 (New 

 Britain) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 351 (Kina Banua River) ; Scl. t. c. p. 447 

 (Duke of York Isl.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xiv. p. 667 (1879: 

 Great Ki Island) ; & Albert. Nuova- Guinea, pp. 582, 585 (1880) ; 



Britain), p. 39 (Torres Straits) ; Meyer, Sitz. Abhandl. Ges. ' Isis,' 

 Dresden, 1884, Abth. i. p. 56 (Siao) ; Plcske, Bull. Acad. St. Pe- 

 tersb. xxix. p. 573 (1884 : Ternate) ; Boyd. Comsp. Av. Imp. Ross. 

 i. p. 84 (1884) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 576 (Obi Major) ; Rayn- 

 say, Tab. List Aitstr. B. p. 20 (1888) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. W. (2) iii. p. 1778 (1888 : Cumberland, N. S. VV.) ; Etheridye, 

 Lord Howe Isl. p. 17 (1889). 



Numenius tahitensis {nee Gm.), Cassin in Perry's Exped. Japan, ii. 

 p. 228, pi. 5 (1856). 



Numenius minor (nee Leach), Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 

 xxv. p. 255 (1863); id. J.f O. 1864, p. 137. 



Numenius sp., Rosenb. Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 82 (1867 : Ki 

 Islands). 



Numenius variegatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 330(1882); 

 id. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 332 (1882) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 52, 

 200 (Larut, Timorlaut) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 12 

 (1884) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 433 (Timor Laut) ; id. Naturalist's 

 Wand. East. Arch. p. 367 (1885); Nehrk. J.f. O. 1885, p. 35 

 (Waigiou) ; Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 201 (Aola, Guadalcanar) ; 

 Blasius, Ornis, 1888, p. 629 (Sangbir) ; Everett, Journ. Straits 

 Branch As. Soc. 1889, p. 209 ; Salvad. Ayy. Orn. Papuasia etc. 

 iii. p. 204 (1891) ; Biittik. Notes Lei/d. Mus. xiv. p. 204 (1892 : 

 Siraiba) ; Meyer # Wiylesw. J.f. O. 1894, p. 252 (Talaut Isl.). 



Numenius melanorhyncbus (nee Bp.), Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. viii. 

 p. 340 (1883 : Kamtchatka) ; Dyb. f Tacz. op. cit. ix. p. 146 (1884). 



Numenius phseopus variegatus, Stejneyer, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 no. 29, p. 138 (1885: Bering Isl.), p. 317 (Karntchatka) ; See- 

 bohm, Hist. Br. B. iii. p. 101 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 

 p. 330 (1880) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 457 (Chimulpo, Corea, 

 May) ; Seebohm. B. Japan. Emp. p. 317 (1890) ; Nicholski, Faune 

 Saghalien, p. 267 (teste Tacz.) ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. Set. 

 St. Petersb. (7) xxxix. p. 943 (1893). 



Adult male. Similar to N. phceopus, but with the lower back and 

 rump very thickly mottled with bars and spots of brown, and the 

 axillaries with broader and more numerous bands of brown : " bill 

 blackish, dark brown at the base of the lower mandible ; feet dark 

 lead-colour ; claws black ; iris very dark brown " (L. Taczanowslci). 

 Total length 15 inches, culmen 3, wing 8-8, tail 3*8, tarsus 2-15. 



