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pursued by sportsmen. All the New York records which I can find for the 

 last 35 years are as follows: 



Otisco, N. Y. 1873. (2). Bamum, Birds of Onondaga Co. p. 26 



Far Rockaway, L. I. Sept. 12, 1875; Sept. 10, 1876; Sept. 26, 1884. N. T. Lawrence. 



Auk, 2: 273 

 Good Ground, L. I. Sept. 7, 11, 1885. (Perkins). Dutcher, L. I. Notes 

 Long Island. Sept. 7, 1885. (Howell). Dutcher " 



Montauk Point, L. L Sept. 11, 1886. (Scott). Dutcher 

 Queens cc, L. I. Sept. 30, 1887. (Hendrickson). " " 



Good Ground, L. I. Sept. 13, 1889. (Perkins). " " 



Queens co., L. I. Sept. 11, 1889. " " 



Sept. 12, 1889. (s). 



Sept. 13, 1889. (^Several). (Hendrickson) 

 Long Island. Sept. 15, 1889. (J.G.Scott) 



Good Ground, L. I. Sept. 11, 1890. (Perkins) " 



Montauk, L. I. About Sept. 14, 1891. (Scott) " 



Sept. 16, 1891. (12). (Scott) 

 Good Ground, L. I. Aug. 3, 1893. (0- (Perkins) " 



Lockport, N. Y. Oct. 2, 1879. (Louis Hill). J. L. Davison 

 Oswego CO., N. Y. tv, rare. Several times in 25 years. D. D. Stone 

 Rensselaer co., N. Y. Once taken, tv. F. S. Webster 

 Brockport, N. Y. May 8, 1887. David Bruce 

 Cooper, Wyoming co., N. Y. About 1896. James H. Savage 

 Canada, south bank St Lawrence river. Aug. 25-Sept. 15. Dr T. B. Heimstreet 

 Near New York, a few 



Numenius arquatus (Linnaeus) 



European Curlew 



Scolopax arquatus Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:14s 

 Numenius arquatus A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. Hypothetical List, 

 No. 1 1, I 



arqud'tus, Lat., bent, or bowed, referring to the bill 



This species resembles the Long-billed curlew in size and shape, but is 

 of a grayish, rather than of a buffy or rufous color, and the rump is white. 



A single specimen of this palearctic species was obtained on Long 

 Island in 1853, and is now in the State Museum collection [see N. Y. State 

 Mus. 7th Rcp't, p. 17 ; also Marshall, Auk, 9 1390]. This record was regarded 

 bv the A. O. U. committee as subject to some doubt, but Mr Dutcher and 

 others who have examined the e^adence regard the authenticity of the 



