78 BIRDS OF OHIO. 



that this species may be found breeding in some parts of the 

 state, no positive record has yet been made to that effect. 



It is likely that the birds arrive from the south about the 

 middle of April, tarrying well toward June as the records 

 prove. They might be mistaken for the Bartramian Sand- 

 piper when so far away that the extremely long curved bill 

 cannot be seen, but otherwise they should be easy of identi- 

 fication. 



106. (265.) NuMENius hudsonicus Lath. 224. 



Hudsonian Curlew. 



Synonyms: Jack Curlew, Short-billed Curlew, American Wim- 



brel. 

 Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 165, 185. 



Dr. Wheaton gives practically the same records for this 

 curlew as for the Long-billed. Records from Defiance 

 (Slocum), Erie (Moseley), and Ashtabula (Sim) have 

 come to me. This species was regarded as less likely to oc- 

 cur than the preceding, by Dr. Wheaton. So far as the re- 

 ports received are concerned it would appear to be scattered 

 over the state about the same. It is strictly a migrant in the 

 state Dr. Wheaton had never seen it in Ohio. 



107. (266.) NuMENius borealis (Forst). 225. 



Eskimo Curlew. 



Synonyms: Scolopax borealis. 



Esquimaux Curlew, Dough-bird. 

 Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1860, 380, 480. 



Dr. Wheaton's statement that it is a "Not common spring 

 and fair migrant" seems to be pretty largely based upon a 

 report from Mr. R. K. Winslow that "it is not rare in the 

 vicinity of Cleveland," without specimens to prove the state- 

 ment. Dr. Wheaton records only the capture of a speci- 

 men taken near Cincinnati by Mr. Shorten, in September, 

 1878, but states that he saw a single bird in a flock of 

 Golden Plovers in the vicinity of Columbus. Prof. E. L. 

 Moseley reports it as rare in Erie county as seen by Dr. 

 Graffe. The similarity of this and the last species makes 



