BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 395 
part.—Saunpers, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 35 (Gallatin Co., Montana, breeding).— 
Brooks, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 387 (Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia, April).— 
Dice, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 43 (near Prescott, s. e. Washington, breeding). 
Numineus occidentalis Woopuouse, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., vi, 1852, 194 
(Rio Grande, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug. 20, 1851; type formerly 
in U. 8. Nat. Mus.; destroyed in 1888). 
Numenius occidentalis WoopHoussz, in Sitgreaves’ Rep. Expl. Zufii and Col. 
R., 1853, 98, pl. 6 (descr.). : 
Numenius americanus parvus Bisuop, Auk, xxvii, Jan., 1910, 59 (Crane Lake, 
. Saskatchewan; coll. L. B. Bishop).—Puruirs, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 75 (Mata- 
moros, Tamaulipas, Jan.). 
The following references may pertain to either N. a. americanus or 
N. a. occidentalis, examination of specimens being necessary to 
determine their proper allocation: 
Numenius longirosiris LicuTENSTEIN, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég., 1830, 3; Journ. 
fiir Orn., 1863, 59 (reprint).—Vicors, Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ Birds, 1839, 28.— 
Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii; 1855, 315 (New Mexico); xi, 1859, 108 
(New Mexico).—Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 178 (City of Mexico) .— 
Satvin, Ibis, 1865, 190 (Guatemala); 1866, 197 (Chiapam and Duefias, Guate- 
mala).—Covss, Ibis, 1865, 165 (Arizona); 1866, 269 (s. California); Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 98 (Fort Whipple, Arizona).—Coorsr, 
Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 298 (Great Falls, Montana).—Finscu, Abh. nat. Ver. 
Bremen, i, 1870, 363 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa).—Sciater and Satvin, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1873, 456 (Mexico; Guatemala)—Lawrencr, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H., ii, 1874, 309 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa); Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 
48 (Juchitan, Oaxaca, Feb.).—FErRrRAniI-PErgz, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., ix, 
1886, 179 (Puebla).—Suarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 352, part 
(Chihuahua, Jan.; San Blas, Tepic, April 28; City of Mexico; Zacatecas, 
Aug.; Cozumel Island; Duefias, Guatemala; San Diego, California), 753 (Can- 
ada; California)—Satvin and Gopmay, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 364 
(Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Rio Guerrero, Chihuahua; San Blas, Tepic; Zaca- 
tecas; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Guanajuato; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Valley of Mexico; 
Juchitan, Oaxaca; Laguna de San Baltazan, Puebla; Cozumel Island; Duefias 
and Chiapam, Guatemala)—Mitter (W. DeW.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 
xxii, 1906, 162 ¢Rancho Santuario, n. w. Durango, Feb.). 
N [umenius] longirostris Maximitian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 88 (descr., etc.). 
Genus PHA4OPUS Cuvier. 
Curlirius RaFINESQUE, Anal. de la Nature, 1815, 17 (nomen nudum). 
Pheopus Cuvier, Régne Anim., i, 1817 (1816), 485. (Type, by tautonymy, Scolo- 
pax pheopus Linneeus.) 
Large Scolopacide (wing 211-267 mm.) resembling Numenius, 
but with relatively shorter and stouter and more abruptly decurved 
bill, the exposed culmen shorter than tarsus and middle toe; tarsus 
less than twice as long as middle toe without claw, and tail longer 
than tarsus with middle toe. 
Bill shorter than tarsus and middle toe, straight or nearly so for 
basal half, rather abruptly decurved terminally, slightly compressed, 
the tip very slightly expanded; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally 
linear (slit-like), pervious: nasal groove distinct for more than basal 
