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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Section 5. Toes, four, with small web ; bill, curved down= 

 ward ; bill, over 2 inches long. 



Primaries, without bars; axillars, 

 barred. 



Numenius borealis. Esquimaux Curlew 

 Dough Bird. 



See No. 219. 



Primaries, barred ; 

 nxillars barred. 



Numenius hudsonicus, 

 Hudsonian Curlew. 

 Jack Curlew. 

 See No. 218. 



First primary. 



Curlews 



