98 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B SSI, C 443, R 560, C 646.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding in the Arctic 

 regions, and migrating south throughout South America. 



[267.] Numenius phaeopus (Linn.). 

 Whimbrel. 



Scolopax phaopus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 146. 

 Numenius phaopus Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. I. 1787, 291. 



[B— , C— , Rs6i, C644.J 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of the Old World ; occasional in 

 Greenland. 



[268.] Numenius tahitiensis (Gmel.). 

 Bristle.thighed Curlew. 



Scolopax tahitiensis Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 656. 

 Numenius tahitiensis Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. III. Aug. 24 

 1880, 201. 



[B — , C 442 fe, R 562, C 647.] 



Geog. Dist. — Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Occasional on the 

 coast of Alaska and Lower California. 



Family CHARADRIID^. Plovers. 



Genus VANELLITS Brisson. 

 Vaneiius Briss. Orn. V. 1760, 94. Type, Tringa vanellus Linn. 



[269.] Vanellus vanellus (Linn.). 

 Lap^ving. 



Tringa vanellus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 148. 

 Vanellus vanellus Light. Nom. Mus. Berol. 1854, 9s. 



[B— C—,R 512,0593.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of eastern hemisphere. In North 

 America, occasional in Greenland, the islands in Norton Sound, 

 Alaska, and on Long Island. 



