NUMENIUS. 
725 
Nucifraga brachyrhynchus , N. macrorhynchus Brehm, Vögel Deutschi. 181. 
Nucifraga alpestris, N ar quota, N. platyrhynchus , N minor Brehm, Nau- 
mannia 1855. V. 274. 
Caryocatactes caryocatactes Schlegel, Revue crit. 55. 
Nusshäher , Nussknacker , Steinhäher, schwarzer Holzschreier. — Nuteracker. 
— Le Casse noix. — Ghiandaja nucifraga. 
Columbiana Audubon, Ornith. Biogr. IV. 459. Tb. 362; Amer. Birds IV. 127. 
Tb. 235. [America septentr. 
Corvus columbianus Wilson, amer. Ornith. III. 29. Tb. 20. 
Picivorus columbianus Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 384. — Baird, Birds 
N America 573. 
Corvus megonyx Wagler, Syst. Avium, 
cyanocephala [America septentr. 
Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Pz. Wied, Reise N Amerika II. 21. 
Gymnokitta cyanocephala Cassin, Illustr. Birds Californ. I. 165. Tb. 28. — 
Baird, Birds NAmerica 574. 
Psilorhinus cyanocephalus Gray, Genera Birds II. 304. 
Cyanocorax Cassini M'Call , Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1851. V. 216. 
Cyanocephalus Wiedi Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 382. 
guttata Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux Tb. 105. = Nucifraga caryocatactes Tem. 
humispila Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1830. I. 8. — Gould, Centur. Himal. 
Birds Tb. 36. [Himalaya. 
Immaculata Blyth, Ibis 1867. III. 36. [India. 
macrorhynchus Brehm, Vögel Deutschi. 181. — Nucifraga caryocatactes Tem. 
minor Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 274. =. Nucifraga caryocatactes Tem. 
multipunctata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. XVII. 23. 
[Himalaya. Cashmire. 
Nucifraga multimaculata Jerdon. 
platyrhynchus Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 274. = Nucifraga caryoca- 
tactes Tem. 
IVUMEMIUS (Scolopacidae. — vsoç novus, p/rçv luna). — Möhring, Avium Genera 
1752. — Naumann, Natg. Vögel Deutschi. VIII. 472. — Gray, Genera Birds 
1847. III. 569. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Scolopaces 84. 
Synon. : Chlorhynchus, Erolia Hodgs. — Cractiornis Gray. — Phaeopus Cuv. — Arquata 
Barr. — Curlirius Raf. 
Bill more or less long, slender and curved from the base, with the sides com- 
pressed and grooved for nearly its whole length; the tip of the upper mandible 
projecting over that of the lower and rather obtuse; the nostrils basal, laterale 
and placed in the lateral groove, with the opening longitudinal and covered by a 
membrane. Wings long and pointed, with the first quill the longest. Tail short 
and even. Tarsi longer than the middle toe, slender and covered in front with 
narrow transverse scales. Toes moderate; the lateral toes unequal and united at 
their bases; the hind toe long, slender and partly resting on the ground, the claws 
short and obtuse. — 13 Specc. 
africanus Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 712. = Tringa subar quota Tem. 
antiquus Milne Edwards, Oiseaux fossiles I. 415. Tb. 64. Spec. tert. 
[Sansan. 
arquata Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 710. — Naumann, Natg. Vögel Deutschl. 
VIII. 478. Tf. 216. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Scolop. 85. — Degland, 
Ornith. Eur. I. 159. [Europa. Asia. Africa. 
Scolopax arquata Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 242. — Buffon, PI. enlum. 818. 
Numenius major Stephens, gener. Zool. XII. 26. 
Numenius médius , N. assimilis, N. rufescens, N. longirostris , N. orientalis 
Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 291; Vögel Deutschl. 609. 
Numenius lineatus Cuvier, Lesson Traité Ornith. 565. 
Numenius torquata Temminck, Tabl. méth. 96. 
Numenius arquatula Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1849. 
