Order CHARADEIIFOEMES 
No. 187. 
Family SCOLOPACIDM 
NUMENIUS CYANOPUS. 
AUSTKALIAN CURLEW. 
(Plate 144.) 
Numenius cyanopus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 306, 1817 ; New 
South Wales. 
Numenius cyanopus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 306, 1817 ; Gould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 277, 1865 ; Duller, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1876, Vol. 
IX., p. 333, 1877 ; Haast, ib., p. 427 ; Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 198, 1877 ; id., Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1877, p. 339 ; Salvador!, Omith. 
Papua, e Mol., pt. m., p. 330, 1882 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 326, 
1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; Legge, Pap. Proe. Roy. 
Soe. Tasm. 1889, p. 134, 1890 ; id., Austr. Assoe. Adv. Sei., Vol. IV., p. 959, 1892 ; 
Taezanowski, Mem. I’Aead. Imp. Sei. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., 
p. 940, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 350, 1896 ; North, 
Birds County Cumberl., p. Ill, 1898 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 84, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 805, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 176, 
1904 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 201, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 84, 
1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 26, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 136, 1910 ; Buturlin, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 96, 1911 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 220, 1912. 
Numenius australasianus Grould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 6, 1838 (New South 
Wales). 
Numenius australis Gould, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1837, p. 155, 1838 (New South Wales) ; 
id.. Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 42, 1848 ; Sehrenek, Reisen Amur-Landes, p. 426, 
1860 ; Radde, Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 338, 1863 ; Diggles, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. IL, pi. 101, 1877. 
Numenius rostratus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX., p. 194, 1843 (substitute-name). 
Numenius major (not Stephens) Temminek and Sehlegel, Fauna Japoniea, Aves, p. 110, 
pi. 66, 1849. 
Numenius rufescens Gould, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1862, p. 286 (Formosa) ; id.. Birds 
Asia, Vol. VII., pi. 60, 1864 ; Swinhoe, Ibis 1863, p. 410. 
Numenius tdhitiensis (not Gmelin) Swinhoe, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1871, p. 410. 
Distribution. East Siberia, migrating southwards to Tasmania and New Zealand in 
winter. 
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