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also southern Asia, Japan, and Formosa. It is accidental in 

 Iceland, the Faeroes, the Azores, and possibly in North 

 America. Siberian specimens, breeding from the Obi to 

 Transbaikalia, have been separated as a distinct race. 



Numenius phseopus. Whimbrel. 



Scolopax ph.890pus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 146 : 

 Sweden. 



Numenius phseopus (Linn.) ; B. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p 179 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 355 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 629. 



Phseopus, the mediaeval name : from gate's = dusky, and TTOVS = a foot. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bird of Passage in 

 spring and autumn, a few non-breeding birds remaining 

 on our coasts in summer and a few wintering. A limited 

 number of pairs breed in the Orkney and Shetland Islands 

 and it has nested on St. Kilda, and apparently on North 

 Rona. It has not been known to nest on the mainland o 

 Great Britain or in Ireland. 



General Distribution. The Whimbrel breeds in Iceland, 

 the Faeroes, and north Europe from Scandinavia, through 

 north Russia, to Tobolsk in north-western Siberia ; also south- 

 wards in central Russia to Kazan and Orenburg. In winier 

 it visits Africa, ranging to the Cape and Madagascar ; also 

 to India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. There it meets 

 with the eastern form, N.p. variegatus, which inhabits eastern 

 Siberia and Japan and winters in the Malay Archipelago 

 and Australia. 



Numenius borealis. ESKIMO CUELEW. 



Scolopax borealis J. R. Forster, Phil. Trans. Ixii. 1772, 

 p. 431 : Hudson Bay. 



Numenius borealis (Forst.) ; B. O. V. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 178 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 368 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 631. 

 Borealis = northern, from ftopeas = the north wind. 



