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Mr. N. F. Hele, in his ' Notes about Aldeburgh ' (p. 177), 

 published in 1870, states that " an example of the species 

 was killed some years since, on the river [Aide, in Suffolk], 

 by Captain Ferrand, but was, unfortunately, not preserved, 

 One in the possession of Mr. Hilling, of Woodbridge, in very 

 similar dress, was obtained in the river in that neighbour- 

 hood." These two are the only occurrences recorded in 

 England. 



In Ireland one, shot in Sligo, was purchased in the flesh 

 in Dublin market on the 21st October, 1870 (Zool. ss. p. 

 2408), and became the property of Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., 

 who exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological Society 

 (P.Z.S. 1871, p. 299). 



On the 29th of September, 1879, another example of this 

 rare straggler was shot in Aberdeenshire, by Mr. Eamsay, 

 of Staines, and exhibited by Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, at the 

 meeting of the Natural History Society of Glasgow on the 

 26th of November. Mr. GL Sim, of Aberdeen, to whom the 

 bird was sent for preservation, stated that the bird was a 

 male, weighing eight ounces, and that its stomach contained 

 crowberries, some flies, and a caterpillar (Zool. 1879, p. 

 135). On the 21st September, 1880, an adult male shot in 

 the Forest of Birse, Kincardineshire, was sent to the same 

 taxidermist, and its stomach was found to contain crow- 

 berries (Zool. 1880, pp. 485 and 515). 



From Eichardson, Audubon, Dr. Elliott Coues and others, 

 we learn that the Eskimo Curlew is found in summer in 

 the North American regions within the Arctic circle. The 

 former discovered a nest with three eggs near Point Lake 

 on the 13th June, 1822, and the late Mr. MacFarlane, when 

 collecting for the Smithsonian Institution, found the bird 

 breeding in considerable numbers to the east of the Anderson 

 River. Mr. E. W. Nelson states (Cruise of the ' Corwin,' 

 p. 90) that it occurs in summer abundantly at Norton Sound, 

 and sparingly at the mouth of the Yukon, frequenting the 

 whole of the low-lying coast of Alaska on migration, and 

 visiting the Pribilov Islands ; on the North Siberian coast 

 four specimens of this the only species of Curlew seen 



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