BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 407 
N[umenius] hudsonicus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, 569.—CaBanis, in Schom- 
burgk’s Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 757.—Ripeway, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., x, 
1874, 385 (Illinois); Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 171.—Couzs, Key N. Am. 
Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 645. 
Numenius (Pheopus) hudsonicus Cours, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 235 
(Henley Harbor, Labrador). 
Unemius [typog. error] hudsonicus McLenue@an, Cruise ‘Corwin’ in 1884, 121 
(Kowak River, n. w. Alaska, breeding). 
Numerius [typog. error] hudsonicus SctatEr and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1868, 570 (Peru). 
Phzopus hudsonicus Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 1859, 108 (New 
Mexico). 
[Phaeopus] hudsonica Hetnz and Retcnenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 326 
(Mexico). 
Numenius phxopus var. hudsonica PEtzELN, Ibis, 1873, 121 (as to supposed type). 
Numenius hudsonius Vietttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., viii, 1817, 304.— ALLEN, 
Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 87 (Massachusetts, migrant, winter).—GuNDLACH, 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, 161, 187 (Porto Rico); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 
vii, 1878, 367 (Porto Rico). 
N[umenius] hudsonius Houpéuu, Naturhist. Tidsskr., iv, 1843, 407 (Greenland). 
Numenius melanopus Visitt0ot, Nouv. Dict. Nat., viii, 1817, 306, part (North 
_ America; includes Numenius americanus). 
Numenius rufiventris Vicors, Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, 356 (n. w. North America); 
Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ Birds, 1839, 28 (no locality given).—Bairp, in Rep. 
Stansbury’s Surv. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 334 (Pacific coast, North America). 
Numenius brasiliensis Maximittan, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, pt. ii, 1833, 708 
(s. e. Brazil; type now in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.; see Allen, Bull. Am. 
Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 272). 
Numenius rufus Virittot, Gal. Ois., ii, 1834, 118, part (Hudson Bay; type now 
in coll. Brit. Mus.; includes N. americanus). 
Numenius intermedius Nutraut, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 
100 (North America). 
Numenius phaeopus (not Scolopar phxopus Linneus) CaBants, in Schomburgk’s 
Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 757.—Pr.zeLn, Orn. Bras., 1870, 308, 457. 
PHAOPUS TAHITIENSIS (Gmelin). 
BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW. 
Adulis in breeding season (sexes alike).—Pileum with two broad 
stripes of dark sooty brown (fuscous or clove brown), slightly broken 
by a few broad streaks of buffy, separated, longitudinally, by a 
narrower stripe of light buff, broadly streaked with dark sooty 
brown, and bordered laterally by a broad superciliary stripe of light 
. buff, narrowly streaked with dark sooty brown; hindneck dull light 
buff, rather broadly streaked with dark sooty brown; general color 
of upper parts dark brown (clove brown or fuscous) irregularly 
spotted with buff, the lower back and rump nearly uniform dark 
brown; primary coverts and primaries dusky (dark fuscous, nearly 
fuscous-black on coverts), the outer webs of four to six inner prima- 
ries with large spots of buff; shaft of outermost primary white, that 
of the next whitish proximally, the others growing gradually deeper 
