368 CHARADRIID-E. 



Nutnenius australis (?iec Gould), Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. 



p. 303 (1869: Hawaiian Isl.). 

 Numenius taitensis, Coues, Check-l. N. Amer. B. p. 105 (1882) ; id. 



Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 646 (1834). 

 Numenius tibialis, E. L. 8f E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1882, p. 533 ; 



Tristr. t. c. p. 534, note. 



Adult male. Very similar to N. hudsonicus, but much more uni- 

 form below, and easily recognizable by the curious hair-like elonga- 

 tions of the shafts of the thigh -feathers ; the throat and chest 

 streaked with brown, and the sides of the body somewhat sparsely 

 barred with brown : the axillaries and under wing-coverts pale 

 rufescent, broadly barred with dusky brown. Upper surface of 

 body darker than in N. hudsonicus, with largo spots and notches of 

 rufous-buff, the lower back and rump like the rest of the back ; the 

 upper tail-coverts uniform rufous-buff, only the longer ones with 

 dusky bars ; centre tail-feathers ashy brown, the rest pale rufous- 

 buff, all barred with dark brown, the bars about 6 or 7 in number : 

 " bill blackish brown, the base of the lower mandible dull flesh- 

 colour, the tip darkest ; feet bluish ; iris dark hazel " (H. O. 

 Palmer). Total length 18 - 5 inches, culmen 3-7, wing 9-8, tail 4*1, 

 tarsus 2*2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 17 

 inches, culmen 3*7, wing 8-2, tail 3-7, tarsus 2'16. 



Hah. North-western North America (rarely), visiting most of 

 the islauds of the Pacific Oceau, in some of which it is believed to 

 breed. 



a, b. 3 5 ad. sk. Canton Island, Phcenix J. J. Lister, Esq. [P.]. 



Group, July 2. 

 c. Ad.sk. Molokai Isl., Hawaiian Roy. Soc. & Brit. Assoc. 



Archipelago (R. C. L. Joint Committee [P.]. 



Perkins). 



8. Numenius borealis. 



Scolopax borealis, Forster, Phil. Trans, lxii. pp. 411, 431 (1772). 



Eskimaux Curlew, Lath. Gen. Syn. lii. pt. 1, p. 125 ( 1785). 



Numenius borealis", Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 712 (1790) ; Audub. B. 

 Amer. pi. ccviii. (c. 1826) ; Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, 

 p. 378, pi. 65 (1831 : Point Lake, breeding) ; Audub. Orn. Bioyr. 

 iii. p. 69 (1835) ; Bp. Comp. List, B. Eur. 8? N. Amer. p. 49 

 (1838) ; Vigors, Vou. ' Blossom,' p. 28 (1839) ; Audub. Orn. Bioyr. 

 v. p. 590 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, vi. p. 45, pi. 357 (1843) ; 

 Giraud, B. Long Isl. p. 274 (1844) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 94 (1844) : id. Gen. B. iii. p. 569 (1847) ; Putn. Proc. Essex 

 Inst. i. p. 218 (1856: Massachusetts); Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 597 

 (1856) ; Baird, B. N Amer. p. 744 (1858) ; Reinh. Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 10 (Greenland) ; Salvin, t. c. p. 356 (San Geronimo, Guate- 

 mala) ; Bourdm. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 129 (1862: 

 Maine) ; Allen, Proc. Ess. Inst. iv. p. 87 (1864: Massachusetts) ; 

 Schl. Mus. Pays-Bos, Scolopaces, p. 101 (1864: Brazil); Leot. 

 Ois. Trinid. p*. 444 (1866) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 333 (Clrli) ; 

 Coues, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist. xii. p. 123 (1868: S. Carolina) ; 

 Ball $ Bann. Trans. Chic. Acad. i. p. 293 (1869; Fort Yukon) ; 

 Allen, Bull. Harv. Coll. C. Z. ii. p. 356 (1871 : not observed in 

 Florida); Newton, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 56, pi. 4. fig. 1 (Arctic coast 



