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Family SCOLOPACIDJE. 
Genus NTJMENIUS Brisson. 
Numenius Brisson, vol. i. p. 48, vol. v. p. 311, 17G0. Type (by 
tautouymy) : Numenius = Scolopax arquata Linne. 
Cracticomis Gray, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed. p. 88, Sept. 1811. Type (l>y 
original designation) : Scolopax arquata L. 
Numenius cyanopus Yieillot. (24^350.) 
Numenius cyanopus Yieillot, Nouv. Diet, d’Hist. Nat. vol. viii. p. 300, 
March 15th, 1817 : Nouvelle llollande=New South Wales. 
(Fig. Gould, Austr. vi. pi. 42; Math. pi. 144; and Fauna Jap. 
pi. GO.) 
Numenius australasianus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., App. p. C, Apr. 1st, 1838: 
New South Wales. 
Numenius australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1837, p. 155, Dec. 5th, 1838: 
New South Wales. 
Numenius rostratns Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xi. p. 194, March 1st, 
1843: New South Wales. 
Numenius rufescens Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 286, Apr. 1st, 
1863 : Formosa. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Australia and New Zealand (breeding 
in the Northern Hemisphere). 
Genus PHjEOPUS Cuvier. 
PJueopus Cuvier, llegne Anirn. vol. i. p. 485, Dec. 7th, 1810. Type 
(by monotypy and tautonymy) : Scolopax plueopus Linne. 
Phaeopus phaeopus (Linne). 
Distr .—Europe, Asia to Australia. 
[Phaeopus phaeopus phaeopus (Linne). (24-355.) 
Scolopax ph(copus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 140, Jan. 1st, 1758: 
Sweden, Europe. (Fig. Dresser, viii. pi. 570.) 
Distr .—Europe to Asia. Extra-limital.] 
Phaeopus phaeopus variegatus (Scopoli). (24-361.) 
Tantalus variegatus Scopoli, Del. Flor. Faun. Insub. fasc. ii. p. 02, 
1780, based on Sonnerat, p. 85, pi. 48: Luzon, Philippines. 
(Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 43 ; Math. pi. 145.) 
Scolopax luwniensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 656, Apr. 20th, 1789: Luzon. 
Numenius atricapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. viii. p. 303, 
March 15th, 1817 : new name for luzoniensis Gmolin. 
Numenius uropygialis Gonld, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840, p. 175, July 1841 : 
South coast of Australia. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Australia and New Zealand (breeding- 
in the Northern Hemisphere). 
