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and beyond this locality towards the north he met with it as 

 far as lat. 82° 30' on the 12th September, Along the north 

 coast of America it is found in summer as far west as 

 Alaska. On the east coast of the Continent it is tolerably 

 common on passage, and in north Carolina it remains through- 

 out the winter. It visits Bermuda and is likewise found in 

 Cuba, Jamaica, and other islands of the West Indies. In 

 South Amei'ica its distribution has not been well worked out, 

 but it has been found as far south as Chili and from thence 

 as far north as Mexico, beyond which to Alaska it is replacetl 

 by the allied species S. melanocephala, which is common on 

 Vancouver Island. 



17. NUMENIUS CYANOPUS. 

 (Australian Curlew). 



Numenius ci/anojjus, Vieill., 2nd ed. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. 

 viii., p. 307, (1817) ; Gould, Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 277, 

 (1865) ; Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, (1888). 



Numen'ms Australis^ Gould, B. of Austr., vi., pi. 42, (1848). 



The migratory movements of this species are somewhat 

 difficult to follow, inasmuch as it wanders far north along the 

 Asiatic coast during the northern summer, and is not found 

 in intermediate localities while on passage. Hence it avoids 

 the Philippines,^' and the only record I can find of its being- 

 met with in the Malay Archipelago is Swinhoe's statement 

 (B. of China, P.Z.S., 1871, p. 411), recoi-ding it from the 

 Moluccas during the season of migration. These islands are 

 immediately to the south of the Philippines, and the natural 

 inference to be drawn from its presumed absence from that 

 group is that it has been overlooked. It is stated by Sclirenck 

 to occur in Amuria, and it is common during the summer in 

 Yezo, visiting also the north island of Japan. On the north 

 coast of Cluna it is common in August, but has not been 

 met with on the south coast, tliouy-Ji found in the neighbour- 

 ing island of Formosa. It has l)een procured at Lumbdan in 

 N.W. Borneo, but I find no record of its occurrence in the 

 more western islands of Java and Sumatra. In New Guinea 

 it is found on passage to Australia, and on arrival on the 

 north shores of the continent it locates itself along the 

 northern territory, and wanders in considerable numbers 



* In my note on this species (Journal R. S. of Tiisniania), I erroneously 

 stated that it was found in tlio Philippines, hut on consulting the revised 

 list of the Philippine birds contained in the ornithological works of the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale, the only Curlew found in these islands appears to l)e 

 the Whimbrel. 



