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Shinnecock bay. L. I. About Aug. 15, 1882. Dnlclicr, L. I. Notes 



1883. (I). (Lane). 



Au.s,'. 1884. 

 Rockaway, L. I. July 21, 1884. 



Atlanticville. L. I. Aug. 14. 1885. " 



Good Ground. L. I. Aug. 5. 1887. 

 Atlanticville, L. I. Aug. 23, 1887. 



Rockaway, L. I. July 29, 1889. (Several, Lawrence). " " 



Montauk, L. L Sept. 9, i88g. 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham 

 Hudsonian Curlew 



Plate 3: 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham. Index Ornithologicus. 1790. 2:712 



DeKav. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 233, fig. 215 

 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 265 



hudsoii'iais, of Hudson bay 



Description. Smaller than the Sickle-])ill; l)ill about twice the length 

 of the head ; top of Jiead brownish black -with a sharply defined median streak 

 of whitish; stripe on side of head from base of bill through the eye brownish 

 black; upper parts varied with l:ilackish and grayish white, or ocherous, 

 the general tone being more gravish and less rufous than that of the Sickle- 

 bill; primaries brownish black, barred on the inner ivcbs with bnffy or pale 

 rufous; under parts grayish or buffy whitish; foreneck and breast streaked, 

 and sides barred with dusky; legs and 1)ill similar to the Sickle-l)iirs in 

 color. 



Length i6- iS inches; extent 31-33 ; wing 9-10; tail 3.5 ; tarsus 2.25-2.5; 

 middle toe 1.4; liill 3-4. 



The Hudsonian curlew. Jack curlew, or American \\-]iiml)i-cl, is the 

 nearctic rei")resentative of the palearctic species phaeopus. It breeds in 

 the arctic region, and winters from the gulf coast of the United States to 

 Patagonia, belonging to the troo]_i of shore bird migrants, like the Golden 

 plover and Hudsonian godwit, which perform the autumn migration along 

 the Atlantic coast, often making the flight directly from Nova Scotia or 

 Newfoundland to the coast of South America. When storms are encountered 

 they often appear in numbers on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Long Island, 

 but some years are scarcely noticed along our coast. The fall migrations 



