. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Fleming, Philos. Zool. ii. p. 254 (1822).Phaeopus arquatus, Stephens, Shaws Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 36 (1824).Numenius haesitatns, Hartlaub, Orn. p. 233 (1857).Numenius melanovhynchus, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 1021 (1856). NTJMEjSIUS. 329 Plates.—Daub. PI. Enl. no. 842 ; Gould, Birda Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 49; Dresser, Birds of Europe, Literature. viii. pi. —Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. —Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 33. figs. 4, 5. The Common Whimbr
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Fleming, Philos. Zool. ii. p. 254 (1822).Phaeopus arquatus, Stephens, Shaws Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 36 (1824).Numenius haesitatns, Hartlaub, Orn. p. 233 (1857).Numenius melanovhynchus, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 1021 (1856). NTJMEjSIUS. 329 Plates.—Daub. PI. Enl. no. 842 ; Gould, Birda Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 49; Dresser, Birds of Europe, Literature. viii. pi. —Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. —Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 33. figs. 4, 5. The Common Whimbrel is not a Curlew, because its crown is plain brown, with a pale Specificmesial streak. It and its eastern form, the Oriental Whimbrel, are the only Whimbrels in the lower bach is much paler than the mantle. The adult Common Whimbrel has a pure white lower back, but in immature birdsthere are always dark streaks in the centre of many of the feathers. These dark centresare even more conspicuous in the adult of the Oriental Whimbrel, and most so in immatureexamples of the Eastern form \. Stejneger (Orn. Expl. Comm. Isl. and Kamtschatka, p. 135) remarks, Were it notthat the occurrence of numerous intermediate specimens have been recorded, I shouldconsider the two forms good and distinct species. 1 It is very difficult to understand how Dresser (Birds of Europe, viii. p. 22S) could arrive at the con-clusion that the Eastern form of the Whimbrel does not differ from our European bird. He had a finescries for examination, in which there were 10 examples of the Eastern form, and more than 20 of the correctly describes the adult of the European form as having a white rump, but does not seem to havenoticed that the ten Eastern examples (nine of which are now in my collection) have the rump profuselystreaked with brown. Another most unaccountable omission on his part is the absence of any description oreven mention of the young in first plumage, or the
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