BIRDS FOUND ALONG THE BEACHES 1%5 
The young bird has a well-developed but straight. bill 
more than an inch long when hatched ; he runs about on 
strong legs within an hour of his emancipation from the 
shell. 
265. HUDSONIAN CURLEW, OR JACK CURLEW. 
Numenius hudsonicus. 
Famity: The Snipes and Sandpipers. 
Length: 16,.50-18.00. 
Adults: Upper parts mottled and barred with pale 
cinnamon-brown and blackish; line through the 
crown buffy, bordered with two brown stripes ; under 
parts buff, narrowly streaked with blackish. 
Downy Young: Buffy brown above, merging to lemon- 
yellow below ; upper parts indistinctly mottled with dusky. 
Geographical Distribution : Nearly the whole of North and 
South America; south in winter. 
Breeding Range : Arctic regions. 
Breeding Season: June 15 to July 15. 
Nest : A slight hollow, scantily lined with grasses. 
Eggs : 4; pear-shaped, grayish yellow, coarsely scrawled 
with chocolate and brown. Size 2.27 X 1.57. 
THe Hudsonian Curlew occurs 
265. HUDSONIAN = ; 
ae throughout North America, breed- 
“When alighting.” Img at the ponds and lakes of tne 
aretic regions and in all parts 
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JNA of Alaska. In California it is abundant as 
Ah ylos a spring and ne migrant, and is found 
x Se! et: ON the coast in company with the long- 
a yp" billed curlew and the jack-snipe. Like 
the others, it is a conspicuous bird on the beach or 
flying in triangular flocks over the edge of the water ; 
like the long-billed curlew, it drops its feet and raises 
