NUMENIUS. 



Tantalus variegatus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Ins. ii. p. 92 (1786, ex Sonnerat). 



Scolopax luzoniensis, Gmelin, Sijst. Nat. i. p. 656 (1788, ex Sonnerat). 



Numenius luzoniensis [Gmel.), Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 711 (1790). 



Numenius atricapillus, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 303 (1817, ex Sonnerat). 



Numenius uropygialis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 175. 



Numenius variegatus {Scop.), Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 330 (1882). 



Numenius phseopus variegatus {Scop.), Seehohm, British Birds, iii. p. 101 (1885). 



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Synonymy. 



Plates. — Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 43. 

 Habits. — Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 910. 

 E GGS . — Unknown . 



Literature. 



The difference between tlie European and Oriental Whirabrels has already been 

 pointed out. 



The Oriental Whimbrel has not been recorded from the valley of the Obb, nor is it Geographi- 



, . . oal distribu- 



known to pass through Turkestan on migration ; but as it is said to be common m wmter at tioD. 

 the mouth of the Indus, it has probably been overlooked in these localities ^. It passes 

 through Dauria on migration (Dybovvrski, Journ. Orn. 1868, p. 337), and Stejneger obtained 

 it on Bering Island. It passes along the coasts of Japan and China on migration, and 

 winters in India, Ceylon, Burma., the islands of the Malay Archipelago ^, and AustraUa. 



NUMENIUS HUDSONICUS. 



HVB80NIAN WHIMBREL. 



Numenius axillaribus castaneis brunneo fasciatis : primariarum pogoniis internis brunneis albo Diagnosis, 

 fasciatis : abdomine albo. 



No local races of this species are known. 



Numenius hudsonicus, Latham, Index Orn. ii. p. 712 (1790). 



Numenius rufiventris, Vigors, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 356 (1829). 



Numenius brasiliensis, Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Brasilien, iv. p. 708 (1833). 



Numenius intermedins^ Nuttall, Man. Orn. U.S. §■ Caw. ii. p. 100 (1834). 



Variations. 



Synonymy. 



' There are several examples in the great Hume Collection from Kurraohee and Bombay which belong 

 unmistakably to the Eastern form. 



^ The statement (Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 143) that the Whimbrel breeds in Celebes, in trees, and only lays 

 two eggs, must be intended to apply to some other species. 



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