98 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 551, C 443, R 560, C 646.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding in the Arctic 

 regions, and migrating south throughout South America. 



[267.] Numenius phaeopus (Linn.). 



Whimbrel. 



Scolopax phceopus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 146. 

 Numenius phcBopus Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. I. 1787, 291. 



[B—C—R 561,0644.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of the Old World ; occasional in 

 Greenland. 



[268.] Numenius tahitiensis (Gmel.). 



Bristle-thighed Curlew. 



Scolopax tahitie?isis Gmel. S. N. L ii. 1788, 656. 

 Numenius tahitiensis Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. II L Aug. 24 

 1880, 201. 



[B — , C 442 ^/>, R 562, C 647.] 



Geog. Dist. — Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Occasional on the 

 coast of Alaska and Lower California. 



Family CHARADRIID^. Plovers. 



Genus VANELLUS Brisson. 

 Fanet/us Briss. Orn. V. 1760, 94. Type, Tringa vanellus Linn. 



[269.] VaneUus vanellus (Linn.). 



Lapwing. 



Tringa vanellus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 148. 

 Vanellus vanellus Light. Nom. Mus. Berol. 1854, 95. 



[B— , C— , R 512, C 593.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of eastern hemisphere. In North 

 America, occasional in Greenland, the islands in Norton Sound, 

 Alaska, and on Long Island. 



