practice by no means uncommon with the Redshank and Green- 

 shank, and what surprised us more than all, was to see the 

 Long-legged Curlew alight, as it frequently did, on the tip top 

 of the pine forests ; and to hear it, as it passed from tree to tree, 

 utter its loud whistle. The Curlew breeds in April and May. 



