THE WHIMBREL. 



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Brittany. Passes through central and south Europe, appearing 

 on Canaries. Madeira and Azores, wintering from Mediterranean 

 districts to South Africa and Madagascar. Casual in Iceland and 

 United States. Eepresented by a well -distinguished race further 

 eastwards and by another species in east Siberia. 



NUMENIUS PH2EOPUS 



425. Numenius phseopus pha^opus (L.)— THE WHIMBREL. 



Scolopax Ph^eoptts Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., eel. x, i, p. 146 (1758 — Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Numenius phceopus (Linn sens), Yarrell, in, p. 507 ; Saunders, p. 629. 



Description. — Adult and female. Winter. — From base of upper 

 mandible to hinder crown two broad sepia bands separated by an 

 irregular light buff median streak, some feathers streaked sepia ; 

 nape narrowly streaked light sepia, feathers edged pink-buff ; 

 feathers of mantle with light sepia centres shading to light drab or 

 brownish -white at edge ; scapulars same but notched drab or 

 brownish-white and narrowly edged white, lower -scapulars notched 



The Whirabrel (Numenius ph. phceopus), adult male. 



and broadly tipped white ; back and rump white, feathers -with 

 partially concealed olive-brown bases or streaks ; upper tail- 

 coverts white irregularly marked and barred sepia ; eye-stripe 

 white, streaked sepia ; lores sepia ; cheeks, sides of neck, fore- 

 neck and breast white or pink-buff, narrowly streaked light sepia ; 

 sides of belly and flanks cream-white, more or less irregularly 

 barred and streaked light sepia ; chin, throat, belly, vent and 

 under tail-coverts white, some of latter irregularly barred sepia ; 

 axillaries white barred sepia ; under wing-coverts white with more 

 or less concealed sepia streaks and bars ; tail-feathers hair-brown 

 shading to brownish-white on outer ones, barred sepia and broadly 

 tipped white ; primaries sepia, with about basal three-fourths of 

 inner webs paler and notched and indented with white, inner 

 primaries tipped white and notched white on outer webs ; 

 secondaries sepia, tipped, notched and indented white, innermost 

 and coverts as scapulars ; primary-coverts sepia, tipped white ; 



