404 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult female.—Wing, 240-267 (252.4); tail, 92-102 (97.1); exposed 
culmen, 84-95.5 (91.5); tarsus, 54-61 (57.9); middle toe, 34~38.5 
(35.9) .% 
Breeding along Arctic coast of North America, from mouth of 
Yukon River, Alaska, to Franklin Bay, etc., Mackenzie; migrating 
southward, chiefly along Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North Amer- 
ica, through West Indies, Mexico, Central America and greater part 
of South America to Gal4pagos archipelago (Albemarle, Charles, 
Chatham, Hood, Indefatigable, James, and Narborough islands), 
southern Chile (Province of Santiago; Vifia del Mar, near Valparaiso, 
and Aranca, Tarapacd; island of Chiloe; Talcahuano), and Brazil 
(Paré; Cajutuba; coast of Piauhy); casual or occasional on Pribilof 
Islands, Bermudas (August) and in southern Greenland (Godthaab; 
Julianshaab; Jacobshavn; Fiskenaesset); accidental in Iceland, 
England, and Spain. 
[Scolopaz] borealis (not of Forster, 1772) Gmetin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 654, 
excl. synonymy, part. 
Scolopax borealis W1uson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 22, pl. 56, fig. 1. 
Numenius borealis (not of Latham, 1790) Orp, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., vii, 1824, 
p. —.-—BrewEr, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1840, 473, part (excl. synonymy, 
etc.). 
sivonnenden hudsonicus Lataam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 712 (Hudson Bay; based on 
Eskimauz Curlew Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, no. 364, pl. 19; Hudsonian Curlew 
Latham, Synopsis Birds, Suppl., i, 1787, 243) —Remnnarpr, Journ. fir Orn., 
1854, 440 (Greenland).—Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 42, no. 10248.—Couzs, 
Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 262.—Sciater and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 
1873, 146.—Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 27.— 
SHarpre, Hand-list, i, 1899, 158.—Forsres and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp 
Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 69. 
Numenius hudsonicus Bonaparte, Obs. Nom. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826 [242]; 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1826, 314; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49.—SwaInson 
a Eleven specimens. 
Ex- ; 
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Locality. Wing. | Tail. pened Siig toe. 
MALES, 
One adult male from Hudson Bay (Moose Factory, July)..... 235 89 86 54 36 
Five adult males from Atlantic coast United States (migrants).| 235 89. 2 87.6 54 34.4 
Three adult males from Alaska (breeding)..............-.....- 244 94.3} 74.3 55.8 34.3 
One adult male from California (migrant)................2-20-- 245 97 91 61 35.5 
Two adult males from Lower California (La Paz), migrants..... 235 91 81.5 57 36 
One adult male from Galapagos Islands (migrant)............. 257 101 84 58 36.5 
FEMALES, 
Five adult females from South Carolina (migrants)............. 247.4 94.2 90. 2 57 34.7 
Two adult females from Barbuda, West Indies (migrants) ..... 246 100. 2 95 57.7 36.2 
One adult female from Alaska (breeding).................-..25 260 98 85 58 35 
One adult female from Washington (migrant)............2.... 262 102 95.5 58.5 37 
Two adult females from California (migrants).................. 262. 5 98.5 92.5 60. 2 38,2 
