218 FEATHERED GAME 



When dwelling on the coast its food is mostly of 

 crabs of the smaller sorts, sea snails and ''wrig- 

 glers ' ' of various kinds, but in the inland coun- 

 try its table is furnished with grass-hoppers 

 and berries and the same menu which is set be- 

 fore the "upland plover" in the same places. 

 They often make long trips for delicacies of this 

 sort when dwelling on the coast, and the low, 

 berry-covered heaths lining the shores furnish 

 great attractions to migrant flocks. 



HUDSONIAN CURLEW. "JACK CUR- 

 LEW." 



(Numenius hudsonicus.) 



Of the two species which we may call common 

 to New England this is the one more rarely 

 taken within our borders. In the main it is 

 found here during the season of the fall migra- 

 tions, when it inhabits either the outer sea 

 islands, the sandy ocean beaches or the sea 

 marshes, but most of all the uninhabited grassy 

 islands well offshore. It is one of the wariest 

 of the waders, shy and difficult of approach, 

 though sometimes giving good sport over de- 



