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throughout most of its North-American range 19.—Mexico (Deppe & Schiede 2 *, 
Sumichrast +), Matamoros (Dresser ®), Rio Guerrero, Chihuahua (Lloyd 1), San 
Blas, Tepic, Zacatecas (Richardson *!), Mazatlan (Grayson *, Kegel |), Guanajuato 
and Guadalajara (Duyés!°), Valley of Mexico (Herrera \" 18), city of Mexico 
(White +), Juchitan, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast !°), Laguna de San Baltazar, Puebla 
(Ferrari-Perez ), Cozumel I. (Gaumer§?1); Guatemata, Duefias, Chiapam 
(O. S.721)—Cusa 21; Jamaica 71. 
The Long-billed Curlew has a somewhat restricted range for a member of the genus 
Numenius, and its winter-quarters do not seem to extend south of Guatemala. It 
inhabits North America, extending to Manitoba, and is said to breed throughout this 
portion of its range, nesting even in the Southern Atlantic States. The species is only 
a winter visitor to Central America, where it occurs on both coasts, and passes through 
the Valley of Mexico on migration. In Guatemala we found \. longirostris to be far 
less common than IV. hudsonicus. 
In the breeding-season the present species is found, according to Mr. Elliot, in 
grassy and wet situations. In winter it assembles in flocks, and can be easily decoyed 
within shot, but during the nesting-time is a shy and wary bird. Its food consists 
of small crustacea, worms, insects, and berries?°, The nest is a mere depression in 
the ground, and the eggs, four in number and pyriform in shape, are of a pale 
greenish stone-colour, rather densely marked with greyish-brown and underlying pale 
purple; the surface-markings have generally a streaky appearance, especially at the 
larger end. 
2. Numenius hudsonicus. 
Hudsonian Curlew, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. i. p. 243°. 
Numenius hudsonicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 712°; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 313°; Salv. Ibis, 1865, 
p. 190‘; 1866, p. 197°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 377°; Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. 
Bremen, 1870, p. 3637; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 309°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
no. 4, p. 48°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233°; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-Birds 
N. Amer. i. p. 315"; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 130%; A. O. U. 
Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 977°; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 157; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 364”. 
Pil. hiem. Supra fusco-brunneus, plumis grisescenti-albido maculatis vel marginatis ; dorso postico, uropygio 
et supracaudalibus brunneis rufo transfasciatis; alis dorso concoloribus ; primariis saturate brunneis, 
intus dentatim fasciatis vel maculatis, secundariis regulariter brunneo et fulvo transfasciatis, intimis 
fere brunneis ; rectricibus fumoso-brunneis, brunneo- vel rufescenti-fulvo transfasciatis ; pileo utrinque 
nigricanti-brunneo, medialiter striga longitudinali pallida ornato; loris fuscis; supercilio lato albido, 
postice minute nigro striolato ; facie laterali albida, nigro striolata ; gula albida; corpore reliquo pallide 
cervino, abdomine pallidiore, collo et preepectore brunneo striolatis ; hypochondriis brunneo late fasciatis ; 
subalaribus cervinis, brunneo maculatis vel fasciatis ; axillaribus regulariter brunneo et pallide rufescente 
transfasciatis: rostro brunnescenti-nigro, mandibule basi pallide carnea ; pedibus grisescenti-ceruleis ; 
iride saturate brunnea. Long. tota circa 15:0, ale 9-1, caude 3°5, culm. 3°8, tarsi 2°35, (Descr. feminz 
adultz ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 
