204 ^I^^ NAMES. [No. 59. 



and on Long Island at Shinnecock Bay and Seaford (Hemp- 

 stead), FUTE. 



In Water Birds of North America we read of its being, known 

 to " Southern sportsmen " as Jack Curlew and Short-billed Cur- 

 lew, and that " it is said to reach the Middle States from the 

 South early in the spring, remaining only a short time, feeding 

 in the salt-marshes and on the mud-flats ;" and again, that the 

 Hudsonian Curlew is " generally known to sportsmen " by these 

 two names. Both these items were designed, perhaps, for a place 

 under the head of the liist-named species (No. 58), to which the 

 names belong and the description applies. 



of New England gives it as an alias of No. 60, mentions it under the head of 

 No. 59 only in a quotation which he makes from Nuttall, and speaks of No. 

 61 as " called by the gunners the Smaller Doe-bird." 



