430 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



1895. — Two killed by William H. Spaulding at Chatham (N. A. Eldredge). 

 1896 (about). — -Last record for New York State (E. H. Eaton, Birds of 

 New York). 



1897. — August, one shot and eaten, Chatham Beach (Herbert K. Job). 



1898. — ■ Last seen at Dennis, Mass. (William N. Stone). 



1899. — Three killed at Chatham Beach, Mass. (Chatham Beach Hotel 

 Shooting Record). 



1899. — One female killed at Chatham, Mass., September 5 (in J. E. 

 Thaj^er collection). 



1900. — One killed at Eastham (Rev. E. E. Phillips). 



1900. — • One killed at Chatham Beach, September 13 (Chatham Beach 

 Hotel Shooting Record). 



1900. — ■ One killed on an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Dr. L. C. 

 Sanford). 



1901. — Last one killed on Prince Edward Island (E. T. Carbonnell). 

 1901. — One shot at Ipswich (C. W. Townsend, Birds of Essex County). 



1901. — One female shot by Louis A. Shaw, Pine Point, Me., September 23 

 (in J. E. Thayer collection). 



1902. — Two obtained by Dr. L. C. Jones of Maiden in Boston market in 

 October. One killed in Massachusetts; the other came in with some 

 western birds (in J. E. Thayer collection). 



1902. — Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., has the head of a specimen from Sable 

 Island believed to have been taken in 1902 (J. H. Fleming). 



1906. — Male taken, Magdalen Islands (Stanley Cobb), September 6; 

 specimen preserved. (See also Auk, 1906, p. 459.) 



1908. — Two said to have been killed by A. B. Thomas at Newburyport. 

 One of these now in J. E. Thayer collection (Auk, 1909, p. 77). 



1909. — One taken at Hog Island, Hancock County, Me., September 2 

 (O. W. Knight). (Auk, 1910, p. 79.) Now in collection of the 

 University of Maine. 



1909. — Another at Hog Island, September 14, by Ira M. Stanley 

 (Curator, C. S. Winch). Specimen preserved. (See Appendix A.) 



As this goes to press, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell writes that 

 the species has not been noted in Labrador for three or four 

 years. 



The habits of the Eskimo Curlews were much like those 

 of the Golden Plover. They frequented the same localities, 

 often fed on the same food, and whenever large numbers of 

 the Curlews were seen in migration, flocks of Golden Plover 

 usually followed them. The Curlews were very strong and high 

 flyers, and it has been estimated that they ordinarily flew at 

 the rate of one hundred miles an hour, and at nearly twice 



