98 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 55i,C443, R56o, C6 4 6.] 



GEOG. DIST. Eastern North America, breeding in the Arctic 

 regions, and migrating south throughout South America. 



[267.] Numenius phaeopus (LINN.). 

 Whimbrel. 



Scolopax phaopus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 146. 

 Numenius phceopus LATH. Gen. Syn. Suppl. I. 1787, 291. 



[B C , R 5 6i, C644-] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern parts of the Old World ; occasional in- 

 Greenland. 



[268.] Numenius tahitiensis (GMEL.). 



Bristle- thighed Curlew. 



Scolopax tahitiensis GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 656. 

 Numenius tahitiensis RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Aug. 24^ 

 1880, 201. 



[B , C 442 <**, ^562, C6 47 .] 



GEOG. DIST. Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Occasional on the 

 coast of Alaska and Lower California. 



FAMILY CHARADRIIDJE. PLOVERS. 



GENUS VANELLUS BRISSON. 

 Vanellus BRISS. Orn. V. 1760, 94. Type, Tringa vanellus LINN. 



[269.] Vanellus vanellus (LINN.). 



Lapwing. 



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

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



[B C R S i2, 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. 



