A Curlew New to North America

Bailey, A

From introductory paragraph: "Among the specimens received from Charles D. Brower, representative of The Colorado Museum of Natural History, this past fall, was an old-world curlew, Numenius phaeopus variegatus. The specimen, an adult male (C. M. N. H. no. 19454), was taken at Barrow, Alaska, June 10, 1938. It was submitted to James L. Peters, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, for final subspecific determination and he writes as follows: "The curlew is, beyond the slightest doubt, referable to Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scopoli), the breeding form of northeastern Siberia. So far as I know, it is a new North American record. It is the form referred to on page 112 of the A. O. U. Check-list, 4th ed., under Phaeopus phaeopus phaeopus, where it says 'a closely allied race occurs in eastern Asia.' There seems to be no limit to the unexpected things that Brower turns up at Point Barrow!" It will be noted that Mr. Peters uses Numenius; I agree with him that the genus Phaeopus appears an unnecessary split."

A Curlew New to North America

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