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A few were found at. Lake Upsilon, Turtle Mountains, from July 30 to 

 August 7, 1920. At Devils Lake, in 192 1, the first were seen on May 13, 

 and they were observed almost daily on Creel Bay, where they no doubt 

 nested. They occurred at all other places worked about the state. 



94. Numcnhis amcricanus Bechstein. Long-billed Curlew. 



Allen, 1875, P- 67; a few pairs met with at quite distant intervals from the Mis- 

 souri to Montana. CouES, 1878, p. 645 ; breeds in moderate numbers about Pembina, 

 the only locality where it was observed during the first season. CouES, 1893, p. 276; 

 April 17, 1805, Lewis and Clark report seeing a curlew, Numenius longirosiris, below 

 Williston. CouES, 1897, p. 176; Bell shot two curlews near Fort Union in August, 

 1843. Thwaites, 1905, p. 369; on June 22, 1833, IMaximilian records seeing the great 

 curlew near the mouth of the Little Missouri River, and October 11, flocks of curlew 

 near Fort Union. 



The long-billed curlew is apparently rare in the state. There is one in 

 the Williams Collection taken at Mandan, June 14, 1903. There are mounted 

 specimens in the Agricultural College Museum, taken at Williston, July 26, 

 1913, and at Alandan, June 14, 1903. The species is reported to breed across 

 the Missouri River, about ten miles south of WilHston. Mr. Henry Wil- 

 liams reports that they breed at Ardoch, twenty miles south of Grafton. 

 Mr. J. D. Allen states that in 1881 curlews nested on the prairie north of 

 Mandan, but a few years later they became scarce and he has not seen one 

 for several years. Senator Crawford, of Sentinel Butte, writes that he saw 

 but two pairs during the summer of 192 1 and that the last of June they 

 were nesting in the vicinity. No live birds were seen during the time in 

 the field. 



95. Nnmen'iUs horealis (J. R. Forster). Eskimo Curlew. 



Baird, 1858, p. 744; records two specimens taken in 1856 by Dr. Hayden. Hay- 

 den, 1863, p. 175; not uncommon, high up toward the sources of the Missouri. Speci- 

 mens were taken near Fort Union. 



96. Squatarola sqitafarola (Linnaeus). Black-bellied Plover. 



McChesnev, 1878, p. 86; observed it in Dakota Territory only during the fall 

 migration about October 25 ; quite common. Judd, 1917, p. 15 ; tolerably common 

 migrant the last week in May, usually in very small flocks or singly, and sometimes, 

 seen with the golden plover. 



A mounted specimen is in the Williams Collection at Grafton, taken Sep- 

 tember 21, 1906, and a mounted female at the Agricultural College from 

 Upper des Lacs Lake, May 18, 1913, collected by H. E. Peck. The Museum 

 of Zoology Collection contains a male taken September 11, 1913, at Grafton, 

 and another collected November 6, 1921, near Grafton, by H. V. Williams. 



This species was not noted in 1920, but in 192 1 four were seen on Creel 

 Bay, May 26, in company with Baird's and other sandpipers. They fed 

 there until May 31, after which date none were seen. 



97. Charadrins doniinicus douiinicits (Miiller). Golden Plover. 



Baird, 1858, p. 691 ; one taken at Fort Berthold, McLean County, September 16, 

 1856, by Dr. Hayden. Coues, 1878, p. 633; no golden plovers are seen in summer in 

 any portion of the region explored. They pass through in large numbers in May 



