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table. It preferred the fields and meadows t«» the sho 

 lines, and was the companion of the plovers <>f the uplands, 

 especially the golden plover. "About I s ". - s Mj 

 Forbush, "there was a g at flight of these birds on I 

 1 d and Nantucket. Thev were everywhere: and enornu - 

 numbers were kilK^l. Tbev could be bought of boys at - 

 cents apiece. Two men killed $300 worth of these birds at 

 that tim< 



Apparently, that was the beginning of the end <>f the 

 "Dough Bird." which was another name for this curlew. In 

 1908 M -. G. II. Mackay stated that this bird and the -olden 

 plover had decreased 90 per cent in fifty years, and in the 

 la>t ten years of that period 90 per cent of the remainder had 

 gone. "Now l!)»)s ." says Mr. Forbush, "ornithologists be- 

 lieve that the Eskimo Curlew is practically extinct, a^ only 

 a few specimens have been recorded since the beginning 

 the twentieth century." The very last record i*» of two speci- 

 men.-* collected at Waco, York County. Nebraska, in March. 

 1911. and recorded by Mr. August Eiche. Of course, it is 

 ssible that other individuals may still survive; hut so far 

 as our knowledge extends, the species is absolutely dead. 



In the Wesl Indies and the Guadeloupe Islands, rive species 

 o\ macaws and parrakeets have passed out without any serious 



note <»f their disappearance on the part of the people of the 

 United Stat - It is at least time to write brief obituary no- 

 tices of them. 



The Cubajj Tricolored M \. w\ . . I ti tricolor Gm. . In 



1^?.*). when the author visited Cuba and the Isle ^i Pines, he 



