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mottled black and tawny; chin, whitish; throat and under parts, 

 tawny buff, marked on the throat with dark brown, and on the breast 

 with arrow-like brown markings; flank and sides of the body, tawny, 

 the arrow-like marks being much heavier and larger; top of the head 

 showing no central stripe of buffy white; inner web of first primary, 

 without bars; axillars, barred with slaty brown. 



First primary. 

 Eskimo Curlew 



Axillars. 



Adult in winter: Lacking the tawny color of the summer plumage; 

 more whitish on the under parts, otherwise the markings being similar. 



Length, 13; wing, 8.10; tarsus, 2; bill, 2.75 to 3.50. 



The Eskimo Curlew may still occur during the migrations in Wis- 

 consin and Illinois, but is becoming very rare and the species is appar- 

 ently fast disappearing. Prefers the fields and highlands to the 

 marshes. Formerly abundant and as late as 1895 it was not un- 

 common in some localities. 



