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Family SCOLOPACID^. 

 Genus NUMENIUS. 

 Numenius Briinnich, Zool. Fund. 1771, p. 76. 

 Type (by subsequent desiguation) : N. arquata (Linn^). 



Numenius cyanopus Vieillot. Australian Curlew. 



Numenins cyanopus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 vol. viii. 1817, p. 306 : New South Wales. 



Synonyms : — 



Nume7iius wistralasianus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. iv. App. 



1838, p. 6 : New South Wales. 

 Numenius rufescens Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 286 : 



Formosa. 

 Numenius cyanopus BuUer, Suppl. vol. i. p. 180. 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental, few occurrences) ; 

 extralimital. 



Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scopoli) Australian Wbimbrel. 

 Tantalus variegatus Scopoli, Del Flor. Faun. Insub. 

 fasc. ii. 1786, p. 92 : Luzon. 



Synonyms : — 



Numenius uropygialis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1840, 1841, 



p. 175 : south coast of Australia. 

 Numenius variegatus Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 181. [The tvpe- 



locality of Scolopax ph(eopus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758> 



p. 146, is Europe (Sweden).] 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental : two occurrences, 

 Wairau and Westport, Dec. 1893) ; Kermadec Islands 

 (one, Sept. 1908) ; extralimital. 



Genus MESOSCOLOPAX. 

 Mesoscolopax Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. xxiv. 

 1896, pp. 338, 371. 



Type (by monotypy) : M. minutus (Gould). 



Mesoscolopax minutus (Gould). Little Wbimbrel. 



Numenius minutus Gould, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 17G, 

 1841 : New South Wales. 



