32S 



NUMENIUS. 



*** Aberrant Curlews, or Wldmbrels. 



Tertiary of adult. 



Tertiary of young. 



NUMENIUS PH^OPUS. 



COMMON WHIMBBEL. 



Diagnosis. Numenius pileo brunneo, striga pallida centraliter notato : dorso postico uropygioque quam inter- 

 scapulium valde pallidioribus. 



Variations. The Eastern form of the Whimbrel differs very considerably from the Western form, and 

 has every claim to be regarded as subspecifically distinct. 



Synonymy. Scolopax pbseopus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 146 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 243 (1766). 



Numenius minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 317 (1760). 



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

 Pbseopus pbseopus [Linn.), Cuvier, Eigne An. i. p. 485 (1817). 

 Phseopus vulgaris, Fleming, Philos. Zool. ii. p. 254 (1822). 

 Phaeopus arquatus, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 36 (1824). 

 Numenius haesitatns, Hartlaub, Orn. W.-Afr. p. 233 (1857). 

 Numenius melanovhynchus, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 1021 (1856). 



