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ami frciui Central America, where it passes the winter months, to the Aretic Ocean, on 

 the borders of which it breeds. In Alaska Mr. Bannister saw it on the Island of St. 

 Michael's where, however, it was not very common. It was obtained at Sitka by Mr. 

 Bischoff ; and Mr. Dall states that it was not rare at the mouth of the Yukon Eiver, 

 where its favorite attitude seemed to be sitting on a high stumj) or piece of drift- 

 wood, or even an alder-bush when this was large enough, with one of its legs drawn 

 up. Mr. Bernard Eoss met with this Curlew in the neighborhood of Great Slave 

 Lake. Professor Eeinhardt includes it among the birds of Greenland on the strength 

 of a single specimen — a female — sent from Godthaab by Holbijll. The latter men- 

 tions having obtained it twice — at Julianehaab and Fiskernaes — and also one 

 specimen from Jakobshavn. It occurs as a migratory visitant in the fall in Bermuda, 

 where it arrives early in August, but is so shy of approach that one can hardly 

 eyg]. o-et within gunshot of it. It is found only in August and September. Dr. 

 Kjaerbtilling mentions ("jSTaumannia," VI. o08) that he received a specimen of this 

 Curlew from Iceland. jMr. E. Browne speaks of having seen it on Vancouver Island 

 Dr. Cooper noticed but few of this species on the southern coast of California, and 

 these only in the spring, some remaining in flocks at Santa Barbara as late as May 

 20, and a few go as far south as San Diego. Though not known to breed south of 

 Hudson's Bay, Dr. Cooper thinks that some may nest among the mountain lakes of 

 California. He adds that, like the Long-bUled Curlew, they fly with some approach 

 to a regular order, generally in the form of a V, and in company with most of the 

 other shore-birds, circling high in the air with loud cries when the falling tide begins 

 to lay their feeding-grounds bare. They are also common on the Pacitic coast as far 

 south as Guatemala, and Mr. Salvin found them very abundant about the lagoons of 

 Chiapam. 



Mr. Moore mentions that on the 22d of iMarch, 1872. a single specimen of this 

 Curlew was brought to him which had been killed cm the shore of Sarasota Bay, 

 where it was feeding in the water in company with IMarbled Godwits, Eed-breasted 

 Snipes, and Willets, as well as with a few others of its own species. It was the only 

 bird of its kind ever seen by him in tlie flesh in Florida. 



It is not mentioned by Dr. Gundlach as occurring in Cuba ; but Leotaud states 

 that it is a regular visitant of Trinidad, and that, although known there as the Hud- 

 sonian Curlew, it always seems to come from South America. If this were not the 

 case, it would arrive in November, whereas, in fact, it always makes its appearance 

 on that island in August, as if avoiding the colder regions of South America ; it 

 departs in October. It is always found along the borders of the sea and in over- 

 flowed meadows, where it searches for worms in the muddy bottoms. Its flesh is not 

 held in high esteem in Trinidad, and, as Leotaud thinks, with good reason. 



Mr. Boardman informs me that this species is found in the fall in the neighl)orhood 

 of Calais, but that it is never very common in that neighborhood. In ^Massachusetts 

 it is quite abundant every year in the fall, coming from the north in irregular, pro- 

 longed migrations, from the 25th of August until October. It is not known to occur 

 in the spring in that State, although it may pass through in a prolonged nocturnal 

 flight, since this bird is found on the shores of New Jersey and Long Island late in 

 the month of IMay. A single specimen was procm-ed by me at the Isles of Shoals 

 on the loth of August, 1879. 



According to Giraud. this Curlew arrives in May on Long Island, where it fre- 

 quents the marshes and muddy flats, feeding on worms and minute shellfish, but not 

 being so abundant there as are the Long-billed Ciudews, with which it sometimes 

 associates. It leaves and passes on to the north early in June, again making its 



