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said he would like one mounted also. Two birds were put aside 

 for this purpose. Later, on considering the matter, Mr. Hoag- 

 land decided to save all of the birds and ga^•e orders to that effect, 

 but they had already been picked by the cook. Both birds were 

 mounted by Mr. Allabaugh, April 24, 1911, and one is now in 

 the possession of Mr. Fred Goodrich of Omaha, the other in the 

 N. O. U. collection, a gift of ]\Ir. Hoagland through the writer. 



Even in these latter captures and observations, when the birds 

 were nearing extinction from incessant persecutions, they were 

 very unsuspicious and ai)parently fearless. They flew away leis- 

 urely in close, compact flocks so that they could scarcely be 

 missed when shot at, and a single discharge would bring dovvii 

 many of the birds. 



The most recent records for the Eskimo Curlew would indi- 

 cate that it is probably not yet wholly extinct. The occurrence 

 of eight and the killing of seven of these birds near Cartwright, 

 Labrador, in August and September, 1912, and the collecting of 

 a male specimen on September 10 of that same autumn while 

 flying alone over decoys along the shore of Fox Lake. Dodge 

 county, Wisconsin, have already been mentioned A specimen 

 was observed on the Bermuda Islands, according to Kennedy, on 

 January 20, 19LS''"'. Mr. L. Sessions whites me that a small flock 

 of these birds was seen near Norfolk, Nebraska, in the spring 

 of 191.1. On September 5, 1913, a specimen was collected at 

 East Orleans, Massachusetts, it being alone when taken^^. No 

 records for 1914 are at hand. 



In the spring flight these curlews arrived at the same time as 

 the Golden Plover, though they did not always frequent the same 

 localities. The Eskimo Curlew was always uncommon in the 

 fall migration in Nebraska. Most of the observers who have fur- 

 nished me data on this bird (Messrs. Bruner, Wheeler, Hoag- 

 land) have never seen it at that season, but Mr. Elwood thinks 

 he remembers having seen the birds sometime in October, and 

 Mr. A. J. Leach thinks he remembers their passing through south- 



''^Kennedy, J. N. Ibis, ser. x, ii, 1914. 

 '"Lamb, C. R. Auk, xxx, p. 581, 1913. 



