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  Shinnecock 
  bay, 
  L. 
  I. 
  About 
  Aug. 
  15, 
  1882. 
  Dutcher, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Notes 
  

  

  1883. 
  (i). 
  (Lane). 
  

  

  Aug. 
  1884. 
  

   Rockaway, 
  L. 
  I. 
  July 
  21, 
  1884. 
  

   Atlanticville, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  14, 
  1885. 
  

   Good 
  Ground, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  5, 
  1887. 
  

   Atlanticville, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  23, 
  1887. 
  

  

  Rockawav. 
  L. 
  I. 
  Julv 
  29, 
  1889. 
  (Several, 
  Lawrence). 
  " 
  " 
  

  

  Montauk, 
  L. 
  1. 
  Sept. 
  9, 
  1889. 
  

  

  Numenius 
  hudsonicits 
  Latham 
  

  

  Hudsonian 
  Curlew 
  

  

  Plate 
  37 
  

  

  Numenius 
  hudsonicus 
  Latham. 
  Index 
  Ornithologicus. 
  1790. 
  2:712 
  

  

  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  233, 
  fig. 
  215 
  

   A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  265 
  

  

  hudson'icvis, 
  of 
  Hudson 
  bay 
  

  

  Description. 
  Smaller 
  than 
  the 
  Sickle-bill 
  ; 
  bill 
  about 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  head 
  ; 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  brownish 
  black 
  with 
  a 
  sharply 
  defined 
  median 
  streak 
  

   of 
  whitish; 
  stripe 
  on 
  side 
  of 
  head 
  from 
  base 
  of 
  bill 
  through 
  the 
  eye 
  brownish 
  

   black; 
  upper 
  parts 
  varied 
  with 
  blackish 
  and 
  grayish 
  white, 
  or 
  ocherous, 
  

   the 
  general 
  tone 
  being 
  more 
  grayish 
  and 
  less 
  rufous 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Sickle- 
  

   bill; 
  primaries 
  brownish 
  black, 
  barred 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  webs 
  with 
  buffy 
  or 
  pale 
  

   rufous; 
  under 
  parts 
  grayish 
  or 
  buffy 
  whitish; 
  foreneck 
  and 
  breast 
  streaked, 
  

   and 
  sides 
  barred 
  with 
  dusky; 
  legs 
  and 
  bill 
  similar 
  to 
  the 
  Sickle-bill's 
  in 
  

   color. 
  

  

  Length 
  16--18 
  inches; 
  extent 
  31-33 
  ; 
  wing 
  9-10; 
  tail 
  3.5 
  ; 
  tarsus 
  2.25-2.5; 
  

   middle 
  toe 
  1.4; 
  bill 
  3-4. 
  

  

  The 
  Hudsonian 
  curlew, 
  Jack 
  curlew, 
  or 
  American 
  whimbrel, 
  is 
  the 
  

   nearctic 
  representative 
  of 
  the 
  palearctic 
  species 
  phaeopus. 
  It 
  breeds 
  in 
  

   the 
  arctic 
  region, 
  and 
  winters 
  from 
  the 
  gulf 
  coast 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  to 
  

   Patagonia, 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  troop 
  of 
  shore 
  bird 
  migrants, 
  like 
  the 
  Golden 
  

   plover 
  and 
  Hudsonian 
  godwit, 
  which 
  perform 
  the 
  autumn 
  migration 
  along 
  

   the 
  Atlantic 
  coast, 
  often 
  making 
  the 
  flight 
  directly 
  from 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  or 
  

   Newfoundland 
  to 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  South 
  America. 
  When 
  storms 
  are 
  encountered 
  

   they 
  often 
  appear 
  in 
  numbers 
  on 
  Cape 
  Cod, 
  Nantucket, 
  and 
  Long 
  Island, 
  

   but 
  some 
  years 
  are 
  scarcely 
  noticed 
  along 
  our 
  coast. 
  The 
  fall 
  migrations 
  

  

  