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Hupsontan CurLtEw (Numenius Hudsonicus). First 
found by Captain McLeod, on the 26th of September, 1848, 
and now in the Rev. H. B. Tristram’s collection. It arrives 
early in August, but is so shy of approach, one can rarely 
get within shot of it. 
Esquimaux CurLew (N. borealis). This bird is not so 
wary as the last, but is still very difficult to approach. On 
the 25th of September, 1848, I at last succeeded in killing 
a very fine specimen at Mangrove Bay, Somerset; and at 
the same time, three golden plover, one sanderling, and 
four turnstones, which were all feeding close together. I 
saw one on the 15th of September, 1848, at Spanish Point, 
besides various others, which I could not, however, get 
within shot of. 
THE WILLET (Totanus semipalmatus). Only one ex- 
ample of this bird, which I shot myself, on Pearl Island, 
the 3rd of July, 1848. 
TELL-TALE TATTLER (7. vociferus). These birds arrive in 
the month of August, and are more or less common in some 
seasons. On the 4th of August, 1848, I observed a good 
many of them at Chief Justice Butterfield’s pond, in 
company with a great many yellow-shanks tattlers, stints, 
and semipalmated sandpipers. On the 20th of September, 
1848, I noticed a very large flock goig off in a south- 
easterly direction. They are sometimes met with till the 
10th of November. 
YELLOW-SHANKS TATTLER (7’. flavipes). These birds arrive 
regularly about the lst of August, in each year, being one 
of the earliest visitors from the north. It remains till the 
middle or end of September. On the 13th of July, 1847, 
one of the men of my company, caught one in an exhausted 
