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NUMENITJS. 



*** Typical Curlews. 



NUMENIUS ARQUATUS, 



COMMON CURLEW. 



Diagnosis. Numenius dorso postico, uropygioque quam dorsum superius valde pallidioribus : tarso longioie 

 (plus quam 75 millim.). 



Variations. 



Synonymy. 



The Eastern and Western forms of this species may fairly be regarded as subspecifically 

 distinct. 



Scolopax arquata, Linneus, Syst Nat. i. p. 145 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 242 (1766). 



Numenius numenius, ^ macw 



. . . \-Bnsson, urn. v. pp. 311, 322 (1/60). 



Numenius madagascanensis, J 



Scolopax madagascariensis (Briss.), Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 242 (1766). 



Numenius arquata (Linn.), Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 291 (1787). 



Numenius major, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 26 (1824). 



Numenius virgatus, Cuvier, Reqne An. i. p. 521 (1829). 



Cracticornis arquatus (Linn.), Gray, List Gen. §• Subgen. of Birds, p. 88 (1841). 



