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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 hudsonicus LATHAM. Hudsonian Curlew. [265.] 



Numenius htidsonicus LATHAM, Index Orn., II, 1790, 712. (Hudson Bay.) 



RANGE. 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 bore alls (J. R. FORSTER). Eskimo Curlew. [266.] 



Scolopax borealis FORSTER, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, 431. (Fort 

 Albany, Hudson Bay.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds on the Barren 

 Grounds of northern Mackenzie; winters in Argentina and Patago- 

 nia; now nearly extinct. 



[Numenius phseopus (LINNAEUS). Whimbrel. [267.] 



Scolopax phceopus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 146. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Iceland, northern 

 Scandinavia, and Russia north to the Arctic Circle; winters in Africa 

 and India; occasional in Greenland; one record for Nova Scotia.] 



Numenius tahitiensis (GMELIN). Bristle-thighed Curlew. [268.] 



Scolopax tahitiensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 656. (Tahiti, Society 

 Islands.) 



RANGE. Alaska and Pacific islands. Breeding range unknown; 

 has been taken in summer in western Alaska from Kowak River to 



