NUMENIUS. 179 



ed. 3, ii. p. 620; Gould, i. Introd. p. cxi; Harting 

 p. 145 ; Dresser, viii. p. 221. 

 Esquimaux Curlew, Yarr. ed. 1, 2nd suppl. p. 36. 



Eoredlis = northern ; from (3opeas the north wind. 



A rare straggler to the British Islands. Common in North 

 and Central America, and found in South America as far 

 south as Buenos Ayres. 



Numenius phaeopus. WHIMBEEL. 

 Scolopax Phaeopus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 243 (1766) . 

 Numenius phseopus, Naum. viii. p. 506 ; Macg. iv. p. 253 ; 

 Gray, p. 154; Gould, iv. pi. 49 ; Harting, p. 53 ; Dresser, 

 viii. p. 227. 

 Numenius phoeopus, Hewitson, p. 324 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 583 ; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 616. 

 The Whimbrel, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 516. 



Phceopus, the mediaeval name ; from Qaios = dusky, and TTOVS = a foot. 



The Whimbrel has a wide range in Great Britain during 

 migration, and breeds in the Orkneys ; it occurs throughout 

 Europe, Asia, and Africa. 



Numenius arquata. CUELEW. 



Scolopax Arquata, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 242 (1766). 



Numenius arquata, Naum. viii. p. 478, xiii. p. 248; Macg. 



iv. p. 243; Hewitson, p. 322; Gray, p. 153; Yarr. 



ed. 2, ii. p. 577; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 610; Gould, iv. pi. 48. 

 Numenius arquatus, Harting, p. 53 ; Dresser, viii. p. 243. 

 The Common Curlew, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 510. 



Arqiidta, the mediaeval name. It is generally said (e. g. by Gesiier, H. A. 

 lib. iii. p. 196, ed. 1617) to be derived from the bird's bill being bent like a bow , 

 a/rcus ; but it more likely refers to arquatus morbus = the jaundice (" when the 

 skin turns to the yellow colour of the rainbow "), in allusion to the legend about 

 Charadrius, G-cdbula, Icterus, &c. 



Common on the coasts throughout Great Britain. It is 

 generally distributed through Europe, Asia, and Africa, and 

 breeds on some of the moors in Scotland. &>njt 'V? 



