3894 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
NUMENIUS AMERICANUS OCCIDENTALIS (Woodhouse). 
LESSER LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 
Exactly like N. a. americanus in coloration, but smaller, especially 
the bill. 
Adult male.—Wing, 253.5-287 (265.6); tail, 96-123.7 (108.6); 
exposed culmen, 105.4-144.8 (121.1); tarsus, 69.8-81.5 (74.5); 
middle toe, 35-41.5 (38.1). ; 
Adult female.—Wing, 251.5-274.6 (268.5); tail, 104-116 (110.2); 
exposed culmen, 118.1-170.7 (158.7); tarsus, 72.9-88.1 (82).¢ 
Northwestern United States and adjacent provinces of Canada, 
northward to Manitoba (Red River; Souris River), Saskatchewan 
(Crane Lake), Alberta (Jasper House), and eastern British Columbia, 
formerly (at least casually) to Vancouver Island; breeding southward 
to southern Oregon (Fort Klamath; Pendleton), Montana (Gallatin 
Co.; Darnells; mouth of Milk River), Wyoming (Newcastle) and 
South Dakota; migrating southward at least as far as southern Cali- 
fornia (Huntington Béach, Orange Co., Aug. 22), New Mexico (near 
Albuquerque), and Tamaulipas (Matamoros, Jan.).° 
Numenius longirostris (not N. longirostra Wilson) Swanson and RicHARDSON, 
Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 376 (Saskatchewan?; banks of Columbia River?).— 
TownseEnD (J. K.), Journ, Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1839, 156 (n. w. United 
States).—Cassin, Orn. U. 8S. Expl. Exped. (Wilkes), 1858, 315 (Oregon, etc.); 
in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 743, part —Batrp, Cat. N. Am. 
Birds, 1859, no. 549, part.—Coopsr and Sucktey, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 
xii, pt. ii, 1860, 245, part (Fort Dalles, Oregon;. Simcoe and Yakima Valleys, 
near Fort Steilacoom, and Shoalwater Bay, Washington).—B.axistTown, Ibis, 
1863, 134 (‘‘fur-countries”).—FEILNER, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1864 
(1865), 428 (Fort Crook, n. California).—Brown, Ibis, 1868, 425 (Vancouver 
Island).—Coves, Check List, 1873, no. 441, part; 2nd ed., 1882, no. 643, 
part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 508, part; Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 601 (upper 
. Missouri and Milk River, Montana; nesting habits); Bull. U. S. Geol. and 
Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 645 (Pembina and Buford, North Dakota).— 
Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 92 (Blackfoot River, Idaho).—SEtTon, 
Auk, iii, 1886, 152 (Red River and Souris River, Manitoba, rare summer 
resident).—Merritt (J. C.), Auk, v, 1888, 145 (Fort Klamath, Oregon, 
breeding).—Suanrpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 352, part (Fort Crook, 
California; British Columbia; Powder River, Montana), 
[Numenius] longirostris Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10247, part.—Covss, 
Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 262, part.—Scrarer and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 
1873, 146, part.—Suarrr, Hand-list, i, 1899, 158, part—ForsBEs and 
Rosrnson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69 (near Jasper House, 
Alberta). 
N[umenius] longirostris GamBEt, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1849, 223. 
Numenius americanus (not of Bechstein) AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION 
Commitrer, Auk, xxv, 1908, 368, part; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 124, 
@ Measurement sheets having been mislaid, the number of specimens measured 
can not be stated. The series was, however, larger than that of N. a. americanus. 
>In all probability several of the Mexican records of ‘‘Numenius longirostris” 
pertain to this form. 
