732 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



It winters in the Southern States and is occasionally found in win- 

 ter in southern Illinois (Cooke, Bird Mig. Miss. Valley, pp. 97, 98). 



The spring migration occurs in April and May, while that in the 

 fall begins in August and continues as late as October 13. 



I saw a specimen in the possession of Mr. F. M. Noe, Indianapolis, 

 which he said was killed by Herman Eckert, April 2, 1896, in a swamp 

 near Jasper, Dubois County. Mr. F. M. Woodruff records a specimen 

 in his collection from Liverpool, Ind., (The Auk, April, 1896, p. 181). 

 Mr. C. E. Newlin informs me there is a specimen in the Frankfort 

 High School that was taken in Clinton County. It has been reported 

 from the following counties, also: Franklin (Dr. Haymond, Ind., Geol. 

 1869, p. 231); Knox and White, specimens in collection, Cuvier Club, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio (Dury); Decatur, May, 1883 (Guthrie); Allen (Stock- 

 bridge). 



This Curlew is very rare in Michigan (Cook, Birds of Mich., p. 63). 

 There are but a few records of its occurrence in Ohio, (Wheaton 

 Birds of Ohio, p. 492), and in Illinois it is now rare, though it was 

 formerly abundant and Nelson reported it nesting in the Calumet 

 marshes in the spring of 1873 (Eidgway Birds of Illinois, II, p. 71). 



111. (265). Numenius hudsonicus LATH. 



Hudsonian Curlew. 



Bill, medium, 3.00 or 4.00 inches long; length, 16.00-18.00; wing, 

 8.00-10.00; tarsus, 2.25-2.30. Plumage, as in the last species in pat- 

 tern, but general tone much paler; quills, barred; axillars, buff, dis- 

 tinctly barred with dusky; crown, uniform dusky, divided by a buff 

 stripe through the middle. 



EANGE. America, from Patagonia to Alaska and Arctic America. 

 Breeds in Alaska, Anderson Eiver and Barren Lands of the Arctic re- 

 gion. Winters on Gulf coast and southward. 



Nest } like that of last species. Eggs, 4; pale olive, spotted with dull 

 brown; 2.27 by 1.57. 



Eare migrant. Occurs with the preceding (Dr. Brayton). Much 

 rarer than the Long-billed Curlew. Although this species is given as 

 a common migrant in most parts of the Mississippi Valley by Prof. 

 Cooke (Bird Mig. in Miss. Valley, p. 98), I have been unable to as- 

 certain where it has been found commonly during migrations. 



Dr. Coues (Birds N. W., p. 510) considers it much less abundant 

 everywhere in the LTnited States than either of the other species. Mr. 

 Mcllwraith says of it in Ontario, it is most frequently observed of the 

 three at Hamilton, Ont. One May he was on the beach when there 



