227 



NUMENIUS PH.EOPUS. 



(WHIMBREL.) 



Numenius minor, Briss. Om. v. p. 317 (1760). 



Scolopax phceopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 243 (1766). 



Courlis tachete de Vile de Lugon, Sonn. It. p. 85 (1776). 



Le Corlieu, Buff. PI. Enl. viii. p. 377, pi. 123 (1783). 



Numenius luzoniensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. torn. i. pt. ii. p. 656 (1788). 



Numenius phceopus, Lath. Ind. ii. p. 711 (1790). 



Numenius atricapillus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 303 (1817). 



Phceopus arquatus, Steph. Gen. Zool. Aves, xii. p. 36, pi. 5 (1824). 



Numenius uropygialis, Gould, Pr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 175 (1840). 



Numenius melanorhynchus, Bp. Comp. Rend, xliii. p. 1021 (1856). 



Numenius hcesitatus, Hartl. Om. Westafr. p. 233 (1857). 



Whimbrel, Little Curlew, Tang Whaap, May Fowl, Half-Curletv, Curlew-Jack, English ; 

 Eun-bealltuin, Gaelic ; Courlis, Courlieu, French ; Magarico, Portuguese ; Zarapito menor, 

 Spanish ; Chiurlo piccolo, Italian ; Begenbrachvogel, German ; Begenwulf, Dutch ; Lille 

 Begnspove, Begnspove, Middelspove, Osterfugl, Danish ; Spoi, Icelandic ; Spegvi, Faeroese ; 

 Smaaspove, Norwegian ; Smaspof, Qvidbonde, Swedish ; Kulik, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Brisson, torn. cit. pi. 27. fig. 1 ; Sonnerat, torn. cit. pi. 48 ; Werner's Atlas, Gralles, pi. 6 ; 

 Buffon, PL Enl. pi. 842 ; Stephens, torn. cit. pi. 5 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. pi. 217. 

 figs. 1, 2 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 303. 



d test, pileo fusco, medialiter anguste albido striato : dorso cinereo-fusco, plumis omnibus pallidiore mar- 

 ginatis : uropygio albo, indistinete fusco striato : supracaudalibus albidis, fusco fasciatis : cauda, cine- 

 rascente, fusco transfasciata : remigibus nigro-fuscis, pogonio interno albido edentatis et griseo albo 

 anguste terminatis, secundariis in pogonio externo fulvescenti- albido macidatis et marginatis : scapu- 

 laribus dorso concoloribus : gula, alba, superciliis albidis : capitis lateribus et pectore longitudinaliter 

 fusco maculatis : hypochondriis et axillaribus albis fusco transfasciatis, 1111s pallide fusco lavatis : 

 subcaudalibus albidis griseo fusco maculatis : rostro nigricante, ad basin brunnescenti-carneo : pedibus 

 plumbeis : iride nigro-fusca. 



2 mari similis. 



Adult Male in summer (Pagham, Sussex, May) . Crown and nape dark brown, a central line and one over 

 each eye passing to the nape dirty white ; neck dull white, streaked with dark brown ; back and 

 scapulars dark brown, each feather having an indistinct greyish brown margin ; rump white : upper 

 tail-coverts white, spotted and barred with dusky ; tail-feathers brownish grey, the central ones darkest, 



