OF ILLINOIS BIRDS 



dump-piles at the north 

 end of Lincoln Park, or in 

 what is now being con- 

 verted into new-made land. 

 Aug. 28, four birds seen 

 among a flock of Pectorals, 

 in the grass-field adjoining, 

 undoubtedly were of this 

 species, although listed by 

 the writer at that time, as 

 doubtful. 



f *Spotted Sandpiper. S.R., 

 N.C.S. 

 Common. 



Long-billed Curlew. S.R., 



N. 



Authority of Nelson, who 

 once found it nesting in N. 

 E. 111. No recent records 

 of its occurrence within the 

 state. The latest for the 

 Chicago Area is Sept. 22, 

 1889, and made on the au- 

 thority of Brandler by 

 Stoddard ("The Auk," Jan., 

 1921, p., 110). 



Hudsonian Curlew. T.V. 



But probably of very rare 

 occurrence. 



Recently, however, it has 

 appeared within the Chi- 

 cago Area (Leopold in 

 "The Auk," Jan., 1921, p., 

 123), a specimen being 

 seen Sept. 7, 1920, on the 

 beach at Jackson Park. 

 Some time afterward two 

 birds, answering this cur- 

 lew's description, were re- 

 ported to the writer as hav- 

 ing been seen about the 

 same time on the grass- 

 field at the north end of 

 Lincoln Park. The gentle- 

 man giving the information, 

 a sportsman of experience, 

 claimed to be familiar with 

 the bird, to have hunted it 

 years ago in Texas; and, al- 

 though he had lived near 

 the park for twenty years 

 and over, frequently visit- 



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