NUMENIUS. 1 1 7 



the regular barring of axillars and under wing-coverts. General appear- 

 ance more fulvous ; under surface tinged with vinous-buff all over ; lower 

 back and rump sandy buff with blackish brown centers to the feathers, 

 thus greatly resembling the rest of back; upper tail-coverts barred with 

 blackish brown and sandy buff or white. 'Bill black, flesh-colored at 

 base of lower mandible; feet bluish gray; iris dark brown/ (Tacza- 

 nowski.) Length, 610; culmen, 183; wing, 318; tail, 117; tarsus, 88. 



"Adult male. In this species the difference in size between the sexes 

 is not so apparent as in some of the allied ones. Length, 533 ; culmen, 

 173; wing, 303; tail, 109; tarsus, 81. 



"Young. Much more tawny than the adults and having tawny-buff 

 bars or notches on the innermost secondaries; the streaks on the under 

 surface very fine and narrow. 



"Adults in winter plumage do not differ very much from the summer 

 plumage, but the under surface is much less distinctly streaked; the 

 upper surface is very similar at both times of the year." (Sharpe.) 



This curlew like the next preceding is a large bird and usually, singly 

 or in pairs, is found feeding on flats exposed at low tide. 



101. NUMENIUS VARIEGATUS (Scopoli). 

 EASTERN WHIMBREL. 



Tantalus variegatus SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 92. 

 Numenius variegatus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 361; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 158; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 24. 



Ta-ling'-ting, Cagayancillo. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (McGregor)-, Cagayancillo (McGregor); Cebu 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (Meyer) ; Lubang (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Luzon (Heriot) ; Malanipa (Murray) ; Mindanao (Platen, Goodfellow) ; 

 Negros (Steere Exp., Keay) ; Palawan (Whitehead) ; Panay (Steere Exp.)', 

 Samar (Sanchez) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Ticao (Mc- 

 Gregor)*. Japan and eastern Siberia, in winter southern China to Australia. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. Above nearly uniform dark brown, 

 excepting for the broad, ashy brown markings on mantle' and upper back ; 

 wing-coverts like back, but margins paler and more whitish, greater series 

 with whitish notches on both webs ; alula and primary-coverts dark brown, 

 fringed with white at the ends; primaries blackish brown, notched with 

 white on inner webs, which have a barred appearance along the edge; 

 inner primaries notched with white on both webs; secondaries brown, 

 notched on outer webs and barred on inner; innermost secondaries nearly 

 uniform with the back; shaft of outer primary white, of second whity 

 brown, and of the rest pale brown; lower back and rump white, very 



* The Ticao specimen was listed as Numenius arquata, McGregor and Worcester, 

 Hand-List, p. 24 ; it is really a specimen of N. variegatus. 



