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NIJMENIUS. 



*^* Aberrant Curlews, or Whimbrels. 

 Tertiary of adult. 



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Tertiary of young. 



Diagnosis. 



NUMENIUS PH^OPUS. 



COMMON WHIMBBEL. 



NuMENirs pileo brunneo, strigS, pallida, centraliter notato : dorso postico uropygioque quam inter- 

 scapulium valde pallidioribus. 



Yariations. The Eastern form of the Whimbrel differs very considerably from the "Western form, and 

 has every claim to be regarded as subspecifically distinct. 



Synonymy. Scolopax phseopus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 146 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 243 (1766). 



Numenius minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 317 (1760). 



Nuinenius phseopus [Linn.), Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 291 (1787). 

 Phseopus phseopus {Linn.), Cuvier, Rlgne An. i. p. 485 (1817). 

 Phseopus vulgaris, Fleming., Philos. Zool. ii. p. 254 (1822). 

 Phseopus arquatus, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 36 (1824). 

 Numenius haesitatus, Hartlaub, Orn. W.-Afr. p. 233 (1857). 

 Numenius melanorhynchus, Bonap. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 1021 (1856). 



