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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
[Scolopax arquata] 8 Gurtin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 656 (North America). 
(Numenius arquata] 8 Lataam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 710 (North America). 
Numenius americanus BEcusteINn, in Latham, Allg. Ueb. Vogel, iv, pt. ii, 1812, 
432 (New York).—AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union ComMitTrexn, Auk, 
xxv, July, 1908, 368, part; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 124, part. 
Numenius americanus americanus Puruiurs, Auk, xxviii, Jan., 1911, 74 (Mata- 
moros, Tamaulipas, Feb.). 
Numenius longirostra Witson, Am. Orn., viii, 1814, 23, pl. 64, fig. 4 (New Jersey). 
N[umenius] longirostris Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vv, 1825, 72 
(crit.); Obs. Nom. Wilson’s Am. Orn.;, 1826, [154].—Gray, Gen. Birds, dif iii, 
1847, 560.—Ripeway, Ann. Lyc. N. Y, x, 1874, 385 (Illinois); Man. N. Am. 
Birds, 1887, 170, part.—Ne.son, Bull. Essex Inst., vili, 1876, 180, 153 (a. e. 
Illinois, summer resident, formerly abundant, now rare; breeding also in 
central parts of Illinois). ~Newron (A. and E.), Handb, Jamaica, 1881, 116.— 
Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 645.—Macxay, Auk, ix, 1892, 350 
in text (Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1 pair, ‘‘a number of years ago;”” Nan- 
tucket Island, 1 spec., about 1887). 
Numenius longirostris Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N.Y., ii, 1826, 314; Geog. and Comp. 
List, 1838, 49.—(?) Swainson and Ricuarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 
376, part.—Lzsson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 565.—Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. 8. 
and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 94, part—Avupugon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 
240, part, pl. 231; v, 1839, 587; Synopsis, 1839, 254, part; Birds Am., 8vo 
ed., vi, 1843, 35, part, pl. 355.—Pzazpopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 365.— 
Giraup, Birds Long Is., 1844, 271—Drnwny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 
39 (Jamaica).—LemsBeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 85.— REICHENBACH, 
Grallatores, 1850, pl. 78, fig. 544, pl. 359, figs. 2815, 2816—McCatu, Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1851, 223 (Texas)—Barrp, in Rep. Stansbury’s 
Expl. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 320 (Salt Lake Valley, etc.); Cat. N. Am. 
Birds, 1859, no. 549; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 25; 
Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, no. 2, 1859, 15 (Great Salt Lake, May 15) — 
Woopnovsg, in Sitgreaves’ Rep. Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 98 (Indian 
Terr.; Texas).—Wattes, Rep. Agric., etc., Mississippi, 1854, 322—Kern- 
nicottT, Trans. Illinois Agric. Assoc., i, 1855, 588 (Illinois); Pratren, Trans. 
Illinois Agric. Assoc., i, 1855, 608 (Illinois)—Purnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 
1856, 218 (Massachusetts).—CaBanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 349 (Cuba).— 
Haymonp, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, 294 (Franklin Co., 
Indiana).—Casstn, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 743, part.— 
Wits, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1858 (1859), 285 (Nova Scotia).— 
Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba); xvii, 1875, 446 (New 
England).—Gunptacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 84 (Cuba; crit.); 1875, 320 
(Cuba); Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 352—AzsBrecart, Journ. fir 
Orn., 1862, 206 (Jamaica).—Tavtor, Ibis, 1862, 129 (Florida).—Boarp- 
MAN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1862, 129 (Calais, Maine) —VERRILL, Proc. 
Essex Inst., ili, 1862, 158 (Oxford Co., Maine).—Manrcu, Proc. Ac. Nat. 
Sci. Phila., xvi, 1864, 68 (Jamaica).—ScuLEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, v, no. 
27 (Scolopaces), 1864, 85, part (Texas)—ALLEN, Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 
1864, 87 (Springfield, Massachusetts); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 182 
(Kansas).—Covss, Ibis, 1865, 158 (Kansas); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 
123 (South Carolina); Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 296 (New England); Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxiii, 1871, 32 (Fort Macon, North Carolina); Check 
List, 1873, no. 441, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 643, part; Birds Northwest, 
1874, 508, part—Hoy, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1864 (1865), 438 (Mis- 
souri).—Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 40 (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, July, Aug.; San 
Antonio, Texas, winter; Galveston Island, May, June).—McIuwratrra, Proc. 
