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northern New Mexico, and northwestern Texas ; winters from central 

 California and southern Arizona south to Guatemala, and on the 

 Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas; 

 formerly a regular migrant north to Massachusetts and rarely to New- 

 foundland, now a straggler east of the Mississippi, north of Florida; 

 casual In the West Indies. 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham. Hudsonian Curlew. [265.] 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham, Index Om., II, 1790, 712. (Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds on the coast of Alaska 

 from mouth of Yukon to Kotzebue Sound, and on the coast of north- 

 ern Mackenzie; winters from Lower California to southern Honduras, 

 from Ecuador to southern Chile, and from British Guiana to mouth 

 of the Amazon; migrates mainly along the Pacific and Atlantic 

 coasts; rare in the interior; casual on the Prlbllof Islands and in 

 Greenland and Bermuda; accidental in Spain. 



Numenius borealis (J. R. Foester). Eskimo Curlew. [266.] 



Scolopax borealis Foester, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, 431. (Fort 

 Albany, Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds on the Barren 

 Grounds of northern Mackenzie; winters in Argentina and Patago- 

 nia; now nearly extinct. 



[Numenius phseopus (Linn^us). Whimbrel. [267.] 



Scohpax phceopus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 146. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Iceland, northern 

 Scandinavia, and Russia north to the Arctic Circle; winters in Africa 

 and India; occasional in Greenland; one record for Nova Scotia.] 



Numenius tahitiSnsis (Gmelin). Bristle-thighed Curlew. [268.] 



Scolopax tahitiensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 656. (Tahiti, Society 

 Islands.) 



Range. — Alaska and Pacific islands. Breeding range unknown; 

 has been taken in summer in western Alaska from Kowak River to 



