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HUDSONIAN CURLEW (Numenius hudsonicus) 

 The Jack Curlew is one of the few larger Shore-birds, 

 which has shown no signs of increase in the last few years. 

 It is a decidedly rare bird near New York City. It is a strong 

 and steady flier, and in spring is rare and irregular, apparently 

 passing by Long Island. The fall migration is chiefly in 

 July, and even then it is decidedly local. Many erroneous 

 reports of Eskimo Curlew are based on immature Jack 

 Curlew, and this is much more true of gunners and sportsmen 

 than bird students. There is a notion that a short-billed 

 Curlew must be an Eskimo, whereas the facts are that the 

 bill of a young Jack Curlew is sometimes not more than one 

 and one-half inches in length. 



Long Island. Rare spring, fairly common but local fall tran- 

 sient; (April 17) April 28 to May 31; July 2 to October 2; casual 

 December 24, 1912 (Miss Charlotte Bogardus, Auk, April, 1913). 



ORIENT. Rare fall transient, July 12, 1916 to October 2, 

 1917; average arrival, July 20. 



MASTIC. Fairly common fall transient. 

 LONG BEACH. A decidedly rare transient; several flocks 

 observed in May, 1910 (Griscom and Hix); about nine spring 

 records between April 17, 1918 (Bicknell) and May 31, 1914 

 (Rogers); July 4, 1919 (Bicknell) to September 22, 1921 

 (Bicknell). 



WHIMBREL (Numenius phdeopus) 



The only specimen of this European species ever cap- 

 tured in the United States was shot on Jones Beach, Long 

 Island, September 4, 1912. (See Miller, Auk, 1915, p. 226). 



LAPWING (Vanellus vanellus) 



A well known European species, which has twice occurred 

 accidentally on Long Island, in 1883 and 1905. 



BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (Squatarola squatarola) 

 There are few finer sights in the Shore-bird world than a 

 flock of these handsome plover in full breeding plumage 



