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Shinnecock bay, L. I. About Aug. 15, 1882. Dutcher, L. I. Notes 



1883. ( I). (Lane). 

 " Aug. 1884. 



Rockaway, L. I. July 21, 1884. " " 



Atlanticville, L. I. Aug. 14, 1885. " " 



Good Ground, L. I. Aug. 5, 1887. « « 



Atlanticville, L. I. Aug. 23, 1887. " " 



Rockaway, L. I. July 29, 1889. (Several, Lawrence). " " 



Montauk, L. L Sept. 9, 1889. " " 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham 

 Hudsonian Curlew 



Plate 37 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham. Index Ornithologicus. 1790. 2:712 



DeKav. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 233, fig. 215 

 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 265 



hudson'icus, of Hudson bay 



Description. Smaller than the Sickle-bill ; bill about twice the length 

 of the head ; top of head brownish black with a sharply defined median streak 

 of whitish; stripe on side of head from base of bill through the eye brownish 

 black; upper parts varied with blackish and grayish white, or ocherous, 

 the general tone being more grayish and less rufous than that of the Sickle- 

 bill ; primaries brownish black, barred on the inner webs with buffy or pale 

 rufous; under parts grayish or buffy whitish; foreneck and breast streaked, 

 and sides barred with dusky; legs and bill similar to the Sickle-bill's in 

 color. 



Length 16-18 inches; extent 31-33 ; wing 9-10; tail 3.5 ; tarsus 2.25-2.5 ; 

 middle toe 1.4; bill 3-4. 



The Hudsonian curlew, Jack curlew, or American whimbrel, is the 

 nearctic representative of the palearctic species phaeopus. It breeds in 

 the arctic region, and winters from the gulf coast of the United States to 

 Patagonia, belonging to the troop of shore bird migrants, like the Golden 

 plover and Hudsonian godwit, which perform the autumn migration along 

 the Atlantic coast, often making the flight directly from Nova Scotia or 

 Newfoundland to the coast of South America. When storms are encountered 

 they often appear in numbers on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Long Island, 

 but some years are scarcely noticed along our coast. The fall migrations 



