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Numenius lineatus Cuvier, Régne Anim., i, 1829, 521 (India)—Hume, Stray 
Feath., i, 1878; 237 (Sind); ii, 1874, 296 (Andaman Islands, Aug. to April); 
iv, 1876, 464 (Laccadives); xi, 1888, 322 (Manipur).—Apam, Stray Feath., i, 
1873, 396 (Sambhur).—Luoyp, Ibis, 1872, 417 (Kathiawar)—Buyta and 
Watven, Birds Burma, 1875, 155 (Arakan; Kyasoo Creek).—ArmstRone, 
Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 341 (Rangoon).—Davipson and WeENbeEn, Stray 
Feath., vii, 1878, 89 (Deccan).—Scuty, Stray Feath., vii, 1878, 350 (Nepal 
Valley).—Burter, Cat. Birds Sind, etc., 1870, 62 (winter); Cat. Birds S. 
Bombay Pres., 1880, 76 (winter visitant).—Lreen, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 906.— 
Buaxiston, Amended List Birds Japan, 1884, 39.—SeeBoum, Ibis, 1884, 
34 (Japan), 268 (Kiukiang, China).—Everert, Journ. Straits Branch Asiat. 
Soc., 1889, 208 (Borneo) —WuitTeHEaD, Ibis, 1890, 59 (Palawan Island, 
Philippines).—Sryan, Ibis, 1891, 331, 508 (lower Yangtse River, winter); 
1893, 437 (Hainan).—Ds La Tovucue, Ibis, 1892, 501 (Foochow and Swa- 
tow, China, winter). 
Numenius arquatus lineatus SrEBoum, Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1887, 324; Birds 
Japanese Emp., 1890, 314.—TaczanowskI, Faun. Orn. Siber. Orient., pt. ii, 
1893, 938. 
Numenius medius Breum, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 609 (Germany); Vogelf., 1855, 303 
(Greece; Germany); Naumannia, 1855, 291. ; 
Numenius orientalis Breum, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 610 (East Indies); Vogelf., 
1855, 302; Naumannia, 1855, 291. : 
Numenius nasicus TemMinck, Man. d’Orn., iv, 1840, 393 (Borneo; Sumatra). 
Numenius arquatula Hopeson, in Gray’s Zool. Misc., 1844, 86 (Nepal, India; 
type in coll. Brit. Mus.)—Gray, Cat. Mam., etc., Nepal pres. Hodgson, 
1846, 137. : 
(?) Numenius hudsonius (not of Latham) Brexm, Journ. fir Om., 1854, 81 
(Charthum, Sudan). 
Numenius assimilis BrenM, Vogelf., 1855, 302 (s. Germany); Naumannia, 1855, 
291. 
Numenius rufescens (not of Gould) Breum, Vogelf., 1855, 302 (s. Europe; n. 
Africa); Naumannia, 1855, 291. 
Numenius longirostris (not of Wilson) Breum, Vogelf., 1855, 303 (s. Europe; 
Africa, winter); Naumannia, 1855, 291. 
Numenius tenuirostris (not of Vieillot) Heverin, Syst. Ueb., 1856, 62: Ibis, 1859, 
347 (Red Sea; Gulf of Suez; Arabia Petraea; Massaua, Aug.; Gulf of Aden, 
Oct. to Dec.). 
Numenius cassini Swinhoe, Ibis, 2nd ser., iii, Oct., 1867, 398 (Amoy, China; coll. 
R. Swinhoe). 
NUMENIUS AMERICANUS AMERICANUS Bechstein. 
LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 
Adults in summer (sexes alike).—General color light pinkish cinna- 
mon, the head (except chin and throat, which are much paler), neck 
(all round), and chest streaked with dusky grayish brown, the streaks 
much broader and more blackish on pileum; back and scapulars 
striped and barred with dusky grayish brown, the median portion of 
each feather dusky, from which dusky bars are projected, across each 
web, to the margin, producing a coarse ‘‘herring-bone”’ pattern; 
smaller wing-coverts with a median broad cuneate streak of dusky 
grayish brown, the greater coverts, together with secondaries, nar- * 
