. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. NUMENIUS. 329 PI. Enl. no. 842 j Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 49; Dresser, Birds of Europe, Literature viii. pi. 576. i^itcrature. Habits.âSeebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 100. Eggs.âSeebohm, British Birds, pi. 33. figs, 4, 5. ^ The Common Whimbrel is not a Curlew, because its crown is plain brown, with a pale Specific mesial streak. It and its eastern form, the Oriental Whimbrel, are the only Whimbrels in characters, which the lower hack is much paler
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. NUMENIUS. 329 PI. Enl. no. 842 j Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 49; Dresser, Birds of Europe, Literature viii. pi. 576. i^itcrature. Habits.âSeebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 100. Eggs.âSeebohm, British Birds, pi. 33. figs, 4, 5. ^ The Common Whimbrel is not a Curlew, because its crown is plain brown, with a pale Specific mesial streak. It and its eastern form, the Oriental Whimbrel, are the only Whimbrels in characters, which the lower hack is much paler than the mantle. The adult Common Whimbrel has a pure white lower back, but in immature birds there are always dark streaks in the centre of many of the feathers. These dark centres are even more conspicuous in the adult of the Oriental Whimbrel, and most so in immature examples of the Eastern form Stejneger (Orn. Expl. Comm. Isl. and Kamtschatka, p. 135) remarks, "Were it not that the occurrence of numerous intermediate specimens have been recorded, I should consider the two forms good and distinct ; ' It is very difficult to understand how Dresser ('Birds of Europe,' viii. p. 228) could arrive at the eon- elusion that the Eastern form of the Whimbrel â ' does not differ from our European ; He had a fine series for examination, in which there were 10 examples of the Eastern form, and more than 20 of the Western. He correctly describes the adult of the European form as having a white rump, but does not seem to have noticed that the ten Eastern examples (nine of which are now in my collection) have the rump profusely streaked with brown. Another most unaccountable omission on his part is the absence of any description or even mention of the young in first plumage, or the bird of the year, which have streaked rumps, in both forms. 2u. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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