Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 
No. 188. 
Family 8G0L0PAGIDM. 
PH^OPUS PHiEOPUS VARIEGATUS. 
AUSTRALIAN WHIMBREL. 
(Plate 145,)* 
Tantalus variegatus Scopoli, Del. Plor. Faun. Insub., fasc. ii., p. 92, 1786 ; Luzon. 
Tantalus variegatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. Faun. Insub., fasc. n., p. 92, 1786. 
8colopax luzoniensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 656, 1789 (Luzon). 
Numenius luzoniensis Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 711, 1790. 
Numenius atricapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VIII., p. 303, 1817 (Luzon). 
Numenius phceopus (not Linne) Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 169, 1827 ; Radde, 
Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 340, 1863. 
Numenius uropygialis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 175, 1841 (Australia) ; 
id.. Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 43, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 279, 
1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. L, p. 61, 1876 ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., 
p. 198, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888. 
Numenius tahitiensis (not Gmelin) Cassin, in Perry’s Exp. Japan, Vol. II., p. 228, 1856. 
Numenius tahitiens id., ib., pi. m. 
Numenius variegatus Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Genov., Vol. XVIII., p. 330, 1882 ; 
id., Ornith. Papua, e Mol., Vol. III., p. 332, 1882 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXIV., p. 361, 1896; North, Birds County Cumberl., p. Ill, 1898; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 84, 1899 ; id., ib., 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 26, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 137, 1910. 
Numenius melanxyrhynchus (not Bonaparte) Taezanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, Vol. VIII., 
p. 340, 1883. 
Numenius phceopus variegatus Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 138, 1885 ; 
Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 330, 1887 ; Taezanowski, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. 
Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 943, 1893 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, p. 806, 1901 ; Buturlin, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 96, 1911 ; Mathews, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 220, 1912. 
Distribution. East Siberia (breeding), migrating southwards to Australia and Tasmania 
in winter. 
Adult male. General colour above dark brown, with buff or white spots on the margins 
of the feathers ; upper tail-coverts barred with white and brown, tail darker than 
the back and barred with white ; wing-coverts paler than the back but similarly 
marked ; bastard-wing, small marginal coverts, and primary-coverts dark brown 
* The Plate is lettered Numenius variegatus. 
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