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are concolorous with the other upper-parts, and its primaries are not varied 
with pale notches on the inner webs. Its nearest affinities are with N. borealis 
of America which differs by its somew'hat larger size and shorter tarsus (the 
wing being about 4V2 times the length of it as against about 3V2 times in 
minutus). The hinder side of the tarsus of N. borealis is covered with small 
reticulate scales, that of minutus is described by H. Seehohm as being trans- 
versely scutellated behind as in front, but we find this character to be variable. 
Dr. R. B. Sharpe separates N. minutus generically on account of the scaling of 
the tarsus. 
340. NUMENIUS VARIEGATUS (Scop.). 
Oriental Whimbrel. 
a. Le Courlis tachete de lisle de Lu9on (T) Sonn., Voy. Nouv. Gain. 1776, 85, pi. 48. 
h. Tantalus variegatus (1) Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. 1786, 11, 92, Nr. 78. 
c. Numenius luzoniensis (1) Gm., S. N. 1788, I, 656; (2) Dresser, B. Europe Vin, 245 
(1873); (3) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 911. 
d. Nnmenius phaeopus (nec Linn.); (1) Pall., Zoogr. Rosso-As. 1811, 11, 169; (2) S. Miill., 
Verb. Natum'k. Comm. 1839—43, 22; (3) id., Eeize Ind. Archip. 1858, 11, 13; (4} 
Schlegel, Mus. P.-B., Scolopaces, 1864,97, pt.; (5) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VUE, 
96; (6) Eosenb., Malay. Arcliip. 1878, 278; (7) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 142; (8) Eosenb., 
Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (9) Vorderman, N. T. Ned. Lid. 1884, XLEI, 119; 
(10) Stcere, List Coll. B. & M. Plidipp. 1890, 26; (11) Seeb., B. Japan 1890, 316; 
(12) Vord., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1891, L, 516; (13) id.. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1891, 129; 
(14) id., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, LIV, 352. 
e. Numenius uropygialis (1) Gld., P. Z. S. 1840, 175; (II) id., B. Austr. 1848, VT, pi. 43; 
(3) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1876, IX, 63; (4) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 
56; (5) Guillem., P. Z, S. 1885, 560; (6) Earns., Tab. List 1888, 20. 
Numenius variegatus (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1882, XVIII, 330; (2) id., Orn. Pap. 
1882, III, 332; (3) Meyer, Isis 1884, 6; (4) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 629; (5) Rams., 
Tab. List 1888, 20; (0) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 209; (7) W. Blasius, 
J. f. 0. 1890, 145; (8) Styan, Ibis 1891, 508; (9) Salvad., Om. Pap. Agg. 1891, 
204; (10) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1892, 66; (11) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 501; 
(12) Biittik., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1892, 204; (13) Meyer, t. c. 265; (14) M. &Wg., 
J. f. 0. 1894, 252; (15) iid.. Abb. Mus. Drescl. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 18; (16) Sharpe, 
Cat. B. 1896, XXW, 361, 754. 
f. Numenius phaeopus variegatus (1) Stejn., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, Nr. 29, p. 138; 
(2) Seeb., Distr. Cbaradr. 1887, 330; (3) Taez., Faune Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, n, 
943. 
^■Krombek”, (Dutch) Minahassa, Nat. Coll. 
“Totupo”, Gorontalo?, Eosenb. 
“Bararang”, Gt. Sangi and Siao, Nat. Coll. 
“Bararanga” (a general name for Shore-birds), Talaut, iid. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 2,5; Stejneger /'7; Taezanowski f 3\ 
Sharpe 16. 
Figure and descriptions. Gould e IT; Salvadori 2; Taezanowski /S; Sharpe iff; etc. 
Adult (winter). Above dark brown (bistre), the feathers of mantle and scapulary region with 
pale edges, spreading out on the longer scapulars and tertiaries into ill-defined pale 
