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Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It has 

 occurred about four times in England : two, Suffolk, Nov. 

 1862, and one reported prior to 1870; Scilly Islands, Sept. 

 1887 ; three times in Scotland, Kincardineshire, Sept. 1855 

 and Sept. 1880, Aberdeen, Sept. 1879 ; once in Ireland, 

 Dublin Market (believed to be from co. Sligo), 1870. 



General Distribution. The Eskimo Curlew breeds in 

 North America from northern Alaska to Hudson Bay. 

 In winter it visits South America, extending to Chile, 

 Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands ; also to the Gala- 

 pagos Islands. It is accidental in Greenland and the 

 Pribilof Islands. It is said to be nearly extinct. 



Numenius tenuirostris. SLENDER-BILLED 

 CURLEW. 



Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 viii. 1817, p. 302 : Egypt. 



Numenius tenuirostris Vieill. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 

 1896, p. 348 ; Nicoll, ' British Birds,' v. 1911, p. 124. 



Tenuirostris = slender-beaked, from tennis and rostrum. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bare Visitor. Three 

 are said to have been shot near Brookland, Kent, Sept. 

 1910. 



General Distribution. The Slender-billed Curlew breeds in 

 the district of Tobolsk and at Lake Tschany, Gouv. Tomsk, in 

 western Siberia ; also it is said in the Governments of Oren- 

 burg and of Kherson and Taurida, bordering the Black sea. 

 It winters in the countries bordering the Mediterranean, west- 

 wards to southern France and Algeria. On passage it is 

 known in south-east Russia, Austria and Hungary, and has 

 occurred in Germany, Heligoland, Holland, Belgium, and 

 northern France. 



