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northern New Mexico, and northwestern Texas; winters from central 
California and southern Arizona south to Guatemala, and on the 
Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas; 
formerly a regular migrant north to Massachusetts and rarely to New- 
foundland, now a straggler east of the Mississippi, north of Florida; 
casual in the West Indies. 
Numenius hudsénicus LarHam. MHudsonian Curlew. [265.] 
Numenius hudsonicus LatHaM, Index Orn., II, 1790, 712. (Hudson Bay.) 
RanceE.— North and South America. Breeds on the coast of Alaska 
from mouth of Yukon to Kotzebue Sound, and on the coast of north- 
ern Mackenzie; winters from Lower California to southern Honduras, 
from Ecuador to southern Chile, and from British Guiana to mouth 
of the Amazon; migrates mainly along the Pacific and Atlantic 
coasts; rare in the interior; casual on the Pribilof Islands and in 
Greenland and Bermuda; accidental in Spain. 
Numenius borealis (J. R. Forster). Eskimo Curlew. [266.] 
Scolopax borealis Forstrr, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, 431. (Fort 
Albany, Hudson Bay.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds on the Barren 
Grounds of northern Mackenzie; winters in Argentina and Patago- 
nia; now nearly extinct. 
[Numenius pheopus (LINN&us). Whimbrel. ([267.] 
Scolopar pheopus LINN=Uvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 146. (Sweden.) 
RanGE.— Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Iceland, northern 
Seandinavia, and Russia north to the Arctic Circle; winters in Africa 
and India; occasional in Greenland; one record for Nova Scotia.] 
Numenius tahitiénsis (GMELIN). Bristle-thighed Curlew. [268.] 
Scolopax tahitiensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 656. (Tahiti, Society 
Islands.) 
RancGE.— Alaska and Pacific islands. Breeding range unknown; 
has been taken in summer in western Alaska from Kowak River to 
