NUMENIUS. 
metatarsus is so unlike that of the Numenioid species that it cannot be classed 
with them. In its proportions it differs entirely — the short curved bill ; the 
proportionately very long wings, about four times as long as the bill ; the 
tarsus longer than the biU and twice the length of the middle toe ; the 
long tail — all characterise this bird. 
It seems therefore necessary to dispose of the species classed under 
Nmnenius in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum as follows : — 
Numenius . . . . . . arquata {luiajie)==arquata arquata=arquata 
lineata. 
cyanopus Vieillot. 
longirostris—americanus Bechstein, 1811. 
Zarapeta, gen. nov. : Type tenuirostris Vieillot. 
PhcBopus . . . . . . phceopus phceopus (linne). 
phceopus variegatus (Scopoh). 
hudsonicus Latham. 
tahitiensis (Gmelin). 
borealis (Forster). 
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