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specimen as fully established. Experts agree that the mount is from a 

 fresh specimen and the taxidermist who had the bird and asserted that it 

 was brought to him in the flesh did not know of its rarity. Its occurrence 

 in America is, of course, purely accidental. 



European curlew. Numenius a r qua t us (Linnaeus). Long Island specimen. State Museum. 



B nat. size 



Family CH A.RA.DRIIIDA.B 



Plovers 



Head, large, rounded; neck short; bill short for this order, being scarcely 

 as long, or much shorter than the head, rather cylindrical and pigeon- 

 shaped, being much compressed at the base and indented opposite the 

 nostrils, and the hard terminal portion enlarged and convex and quite 



