SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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migrations it is a well known bird to gunners on the Atlantic coast, but is not 

 easy to kill as it pays but little attention to decoys and will not be enticed 

 within shot, however good the imitation of its trilling whistle. It breeds in 



the far North. The eggs are usually three or four, grayish olive spotted with 

 brown. 



This species may always be distinguished from the Esquimo Curlew by the 

 barred inner web of the primary and the bufty stripe on the middle of the 

 crown, and from the Long-billed Curlew by the heavily barred axillars. 



