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I was away from home for the day, following a threshing orew. The day 

 had been a ho1 one, and returning to my home about 9 o'clock my wife 

 greeted me thus: " I've gol a rare bird Tor you now I know." Unwrapping 

 the bird the reader can imagine mj feelings when l saw the prise, it had 

 been left for me by a party who has repeatedly refused to give me any 

 information as to who shot it, tearing to do so because it had been killed 

 OUt of season nor can 1 learn anything as to whether the bird was alone, 

 living over deooyS] on lake shore, or anything further than that it was shot 

 ai Fox bake. Being about worn out by the hard and hot day's work 1 

 could not mUStei enough courage to mount the bird, so hurriedly 1 skinned 

 it and that night drove to town and left the skin, duly packed for shipment, 

 with a friend, witli orders to mail it on the early morning train, to my friend, 

 the skilled Chicago taxidermist, Mr. Karl W, Kallmann, who lias done an 

 ai tist's job on the bird. 



1 have carefully compared the bird with descriptions of the species as 

 given in the works of (.'ones, Widgway and many other ornithologists. 

 The OUlmen measures 2.50 inches, wing 9 inches, tarsus 2.62, neck and 

 breast marked evenly and densely with dusky streaks, primaries uniform 



dusky. — YY. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam, Wis. 



Hudsonian Curlew on Long Island in Winter. On the evening of 



December 24, 1912, during a heavy snow and wind storm, a Hudsonian 

 Curlew (Numenius hudsonicus) was found in an exhausted condition in 

 the backyard of an apartment house at Kockaway Beach, Long Island. 

 After spending the night in a basket it recovered sufficiently to By away at 

 seven-thirty o'clock the following morning. The owner ot the house who 

 discovered the bird would not allow it to be taken but it was identified 

 beyond question. 



1 have not been able to find any previous record o( the occurrence of 

 Numenius hudsonicus at this time of the year on bong Island. - CHAR- 

 LOTTE Bogardus, Coxsaekie, New York. 



A Peculiar Hudsonian Curlew 1 had supposed that a Curlew with a 

 bill less than 3 inches in length might safely be put down as an Eskimo, 

 but it seems that this is not the case. A bird was shot at Northeast 

 Harbor. Me, September .">. L912, by Mr Lynford Biddleof Philadelphia, 

 which was supposed by several persons who saw it in the taxidermist's 

 shop to be an Kskimo Curlew. Upon writing to Mr. Biddle for inform- 

 ation he very kindly presented the specimen to the Academy of Natural 

 Suences of Philadelphia. It proved, as he himself had determined it, to 

 be a Hudsonian Curlew [Xumcnius hudsonicus) but with the hill, which 

 appeared perfectly normal in other respects only 2.25 inches in length. 

 This is three quarters of an inch shorter than the minimum given in 

 Ridgway's ' Manual.' and exactly equals the minimum for the Eskimo Cur- 

 lew, This incident emphasises the importance of making a careful ex- 



