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two inches; bill varying in length, say from two and three 

 quarter to three and three quarter inches. 



Kange, according to A. O. U. Check List : " All of North and 

 South America, including the West Indies ; breeds in the high 

 North, and winters chiefly south of the United States." 



HUDSONIAN CURLEW: called by Wilson and Nuttall, ESQUI- 

 MAUX CURLEW (see Esquimaux Curlew proper, No. 59), these 

 authors following the lead of Pennant, who, according to Fauna 

 Boreali - Americana, had " misapplied Mr. Hutchins's notes." 

 Pennant also refers to the present species as the ESQUIMAUX 

 WHIMBREL (because of its resemblance to the European curlew, 

 N. phceopus, which is known as Whimbrel). 



At Pine Point, Me. (I have no notes of hearing the gunners 

 name it north of this place), and in Massachusetts at Province- 

 town and Chatham, JACK CURLEW. On Long Island at Shinne- 

 cock Bay, Bellport, and Seaford, JACK, and Mr. William Butcher, 

 in Forest and Stream, August 5, 1886, speaks of its being called 

 "almost universally on Long Island, Jack." Not Jack- curlew 

 be it understood, the only surname ever added in that locality 

 being "snipe;" all the waders are "snipe" or "bay-snipe" there. 

 In New Jersey at Barnegat, SMALL CURLEW;* at Tuckerton 

 and Cape May City, SHORT-BILLED CURLEW; at Pleasant ville 

 (Atlantic Co.), and Cape May C. II., MARLIN (see No. 60) ; again, 

 at Pleasant ville and at Somers Point, CROOKED-BILLED MARLIN; 

 in last-named locality, HOOK-BILLED MARLIN; and at Atlantic 

 City, HORSE-FOOT MARLIN, because of its fondness for the spawn 

 of that big crustacean known as "horse -foot," "horseshoe," 

 "king-crab," etc., but, as elsewhere remarked, this food is re- 

 garded as very desirable by most of our shore birds. While the 

 Atlantic City gunners claim that No. 58 is the species to which 

 the latter name has been always applied in their region, the 



* This is the most common curlew along the coast of New Jersey, and the 

 most common (I speak from my own experience) along the coasts of Dela- 

 ware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, and gunners in that part of the 

 country know very little about the Eskimo, No. 59, to which species the name 

 Small Curlew more appropriately belongs. 



