KEY 'J'O 'nil': WATER lilRDS OI' I'LORIOA. 



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NUHENIUS HLIDSONICUS J.at/i. 

 Hudsonian Curlew. 



Adult 171 summer : Bill curved downward : top of the head brown, with a stripe of Iniffy 

 white through the middle ; rest of upper parts dark brown ; feathers pale on the edges, giving a 

 slightly mottled appearance to the back ; chin wliite : throat and breast streaked and fainth 

 barred with brown and white ; belly dull white; an imperfect superciliary stripe. 



Adult in winter: Similar to the last, but showing much more tawny mottled on the- upper 

 IKirts. and the under parts paler; a superciliary stripe of dull white. 

 Lengtli. 17.50; Wing, 9.20; Tarsus, 2.30; Bill, 3 to 3.75. 



Common in North America, soiitli in w inter to Soutli America and tlie 

 West Indies. Breeds in the far North. 



It is one of the well-known birds on the Atlantic coast, occin-rino- dm"- 

 ing the migrations. 



This species may always be distinguished from the Esquimo or Long- 

 billed Curlew bv the buffy stripe on the middle of the crown. The eggs are 

 described as three or four in number, grayish olive spotted with brown. 



