CURLEW 



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CURLING 



wife continued her researches. She succeeded 

 her husband as professor of physics at the 

 Sorbonne and in 1911 received the Nobel prize 

 in chemistry. 



CURLEW, kur'lu, a genus of long-legged 

 birds with long, slender, downward-curved bills, 

 found throughout almost all the world. In 

 the Americas several species are seen the year 

 round, from Patagonia to Arctic regions. The 



THE CURLEW 



most common, known as the long-billed curlew, 

 is about twenty-four inches long, including its 

 slender, eight-inch bill, with which it drags 

 small crabs and shellfish from wet sands, and 

 snails and worms from the ground. On the 

 prairies it snatches grasshoppers, beetles and 

 berries. Its plumage is pale brown or buff 

 above, mottled with black and dark brown, and 

 nearly white below. The limbs are slender 

 and partly naked ; the tail is short and rounded. 

 Curlews of the interior are valued for their 

 flesh and eggs. Wedge-shaped, gooselike flocks 

 of these birds migrating across Canada are a 

 common sight, and their long whistling note is 

 a familiar sound. 



CURLING, kurl'ing, a game played on the 

 ice, one of the few amusements concerning the 

 origin of which there is no doubt. It has been 

 popular in Scotland for more than three cen- 

 turies and has been adopted in Canada and 

 the United States; in Canada, especially, it 

 has become a national winter sport. The game 



has increased so much in favor that inter- 

 national matches are annually played between 

 Canada and the United States. A bonspiel, as 



foot Circle (, /& inches diam. 



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a curling tournament is called, is the chief 

 winter attraction in many Canadian cities. 

 The game is played on a rink marked out on 



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