BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. °397 
237.7 in female; exposed culmen 73 in male, 78.8 in female; tarsus 55.5 in 
male, 56.2 in female). (Eastern Asia, south to Malay Archipelago and 
Australia in winter.)........ Pheeopus pheopus variegatus (extralimital).¢ 
bb. Rump dark grayish brown, the feathers tipped with light buffy brown; axillars 
and under wing-coverts vinaceous-buff, the former narrowly barred, the 
latter irregularly marked, with dusky. (Northern North America, south to 
southern South America in migration.)........ Pheopus hudsonicus (p. 402). 
aa. Feathers of thighs with long, bristle-like tips; tail light pinkish cinnamon (some- 
times more or less shaded with grayish brown) broadly and sharply barred, or 
banded, with dark grayish brown. (Western Alaska and islands of Pacific 
Ocean, from Hawaii to New Caledonia; breeding range unknown.) 
Pheopus tahitiensis (p. 407). 
PHAOPUS PHZOPUS PHAOPUS (Linnzus). 
WHIMBREL. 
Adults in summer (sexes alike).—Pileum uniform dark grayish 
brown (clove brown or fuscous) divided longitudinally by a narrow 
median stripe of very pale buffy or dull buffy whitish, streaked more 
or less with dark grayish brown and margined laterally by a broad 
superciliary stripe of very pale buffy or dull buffy whitish, narrowly 
streaked dark grayish brown; rest of sides of head, together with 
neck (all round) very pale dull buffy or dull buffy whitish streaked 
with grayish brown, the streaks broader on hindneck, much narrower 
and more sharply defined on malar, suborbital, and auricular regions; 
a more or less distinct broad stripe of deep grayish brown across lores 
(from rictus to eye) and a narrower postocular streak; general color 
of upper parts grayish brown, the interscapulars rather broadly (but 
not sharply) margined with paler and slightly buffy grayish brown, 
the scapulars similar but some of them (especially the longer ones) 
with indistinct or not sharply defined paler marginal spots; lesser 
wing-coverts narrowly margined with very pale grayish buffy or dull 
buffy whitish; middle and greater coverts spotted (marginally) and 
more broadly margined with dull buffy whitish, the secondaries tipped 
@ Tantalus variegatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., ii, 1786, 92 (Luzon Island, 
Philippines; based on Le Courlis tacheté de Isle de Lugon Sonnini, Voy. N. Guin., 
1776, 85, pl. 48).—_Numenius variegatus Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genov., xviii, 1882, 330; 
Orn. Papuasia, etc., iii, 1882, 332; Mathews, Birds Australia; iii, 1913, pl. [145] 
facing p. 176.—Numenius phxopus variegatus Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 
1885, 138 (Bering Island, Kamchatka); Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriid, 1880, 330; 
Birds Japan. Empire, 1890, 317.—[Numenius phxopus.] Subsp. a Numenius variegatus 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 361.—Phxopus phxopus variegatus Mathews, 
Birds Australia, iii, pt. 2, May 2, 1913, 176.—[Scolopax] luzoniensis Gmelin, Syst. 
Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 656 (Luzon Island, Philippines; based on Luzonian Curlew 
Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, iii, pt. 1, 1785, 122).—[Numenius] luzoniensis Latham, 
Index Zool., ii, 1790, 711.—Numenius atricapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. 
viii, 1817, 303 (Luzon).—Numenius uropygialis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840, 
175 (s. coast Australia); Birds Australia; vi, 1848, pl. 43 and text; Dresser, Birds 
Europe, viii, 1873, 245; Ramsay, Tab. List Birds Australia, 1888, 20. 
