68 SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The Long-billed Curlew ranges from temperate North America south to 

 Central America and the West Indies. It breeds in the Southern Atlantic 



priiuary 



States, but is now not common on the Atlantic coast, and is becoming less so 

 every year. The eggs are described as olive gray in color, spotted with 

 chocolate brown. 



NUMENIUS HUDSONICUS Lath. 

 Hudsonian Curlew. Jack Curlew. 



Adult in summer : Bill curved 

 downward; top of the head, 

 brown, with a stripe of buffy 

 white through the middle ; rest 

 of upper parts, dark brown ; 

 feathers, pale on the edges, 

 giving a slightly mottled ap- 

 pearance to the back; chin, 

 white; throat and breast 

 streaked and faintly barred 

 with brown and white; belly, 

 ^" **"- 3^* "^- '%&*-3iit%L^_ dull white ; an imperfect super- 



Axlllar - ciliary stripe; axillars, pale 

 buff, barred with slaty brown; first primary, barred on inner web. 



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

 parts, and the under parts, paler ; a superciliary stripe of dull white : axillars, pale buff, barred 

 with slaty brown ; first primary, barred on inner web. 

 Length, 17.50; wing, 0.20: tarsus, 2.30; hill, 3 to 3.75. 



Ranges throughout North America, breeding in the arctic regions and 

 migrating in the fall to the Gulf of Mexico and South America. During the 



