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  NE\\' 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  pursued 
  by 
  sportsmen. 
  All 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  records 
  \A-hich 
  I 
  can 
  lind 
  for 
  the 
  

   last 
  35 
  3''ears 
  are 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Otisco, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1873. 
  (2). 
  Barnum, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  Co. 
  p. 
  26 
  

  

  Far 
  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  12, 
  1S75; 
  Sept. 
  10, 
  1876; 
  Sei)t. 
  26, 
  1884. 
  N. 
  T. 
  Lawrence. 
  

  

  Auk, 
  2: 
  273 
  

   Good 
  Ground, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  7, 
  11, 
  1885. 
  (Perkins). 
  Duteher, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Notes 
  

   Long 
  Island. 
  Sept. 
  7, 
  1885. 
  (Howell). 
  Duteher 
  

   Montauk 
  Point, 
  L. 
  L 
  Sept. 
  11, 
  1886. 
  (Scott). 
  Duteher 
  

   Queens 
  co., 
  L. 
  1. 
  Se]U. 
  30, 
  1887. 
  (Hendrickson). 
  " 
  " 
  

  

  Good 
  Ground, 
  L. 
  1. 
  Sept. 
  13, 
  1889. 
  (Perkins). 
  

   Queens 
  co., 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  11, 
  1880. 
  " 
  " 
  

  

  Sept. 
  12, 
  1889. 
  (5). 
  

   " 
  Sept. 
  13, 
  1889. 
  (^Several). 
  (Hendrickson) 
  " 
  

  

  Long 
  Island. 
  Sept. 
  15, 
  1889. 
  (J. 
  G. 
  Scott) 
  

  

  Good 
  Ground, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept. 
  11, 
  1890. 
  (Perkins) 
  " 
  

  

  Montauk, 
  L. 
  I. 
  About 
  Sept. 
  14, 
  1891. 
  (Scott) 
  " 
  

  

  Sept. 
  16, 
  1S91. 
  (12). 
  (Scott) 
  

   Good 
  Ground, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  3, 
  1893. 
  (i). 
  (Perkins) 
  " 
  

  

  Loekport, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Oct. 
  2, 
  1879. 
  (Louis 
  Hill). 
  J. 
  L. 
  Davison 
  

   Oswego 
  CO., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  tv, 
  rare. 
  Several 
  times 
  in 
  25 
  j-ears. 
  I). 
  D. 
  Stone 
  

   Rensselaer 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Once 
  taken, 
  tv. 
  F. 
  S. 
  Webster 
  

   Brockport, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  May 
  8, 
  1887. 
  David 
  Bruce 
  

   Cooper, 
  Wyoming 
  co., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  About 
  1896. 
  James 
  H. 
  Savage 
  

   Canada, 
  south 
  bank 
  St 
  Lawrence 
  river. 
  Aug. 
  25-Sept. 
  15. 
  Dr 
  T. 
  B. 
  Heimstrcct 
  

   Near 
  New 
  York, 
  a 
  few 
  

  

  Numenius 
  arquatus 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

  

  JuiropCiUi 
  Curlew 
  

  

  Scolopax 
  arquatus 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  17S8. 
  1: 
  145 
  

   Numenius 
  arquatus 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  Hvpothetical 
  List, 
  

   No. 
  11,1 
  

  

  arqud'tiis, 
  Lat., 
  bent, 
  or 
  bowed, 
  referring 
  to 
  the 
  bill 
  

  

  Tliis 
  species 
  resembles 
  the 
  Long-billed 
  curlew 
  in 
  size 
  and 
  shape, 
  but 
  is 
  

   of 
  a 
  grayish, 
  rather 
  than 
  of 
  a 
  buffy 
  or 
  rufous 
  color, 
  and 
  {\\c 
  runij-' 
  is 
  wJiiic. 
  

  

  A 
  single 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  ])alcarctic 
  species 
  was 
  obtained 
  on 
  Long 
  

   Island 
  in 
  1853, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  collccti<in 
  [sec 
  N. 
  Y. 
  State 
  

   Mus. 
  7lh 
  Rep't, 
  p. 
  17 
  ; 
  also 
  Marshall, 
  Auk, 
  9 
  1390]. 
  This 
  record 
  was 
  regarded 
  

   by 
  the 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  committee 
  as 
  subject 
  to 
  some 
  doubt, 
  but 
  Mr 
  Duteher 
  and 
  

   others 
  who 
  have 
  examined 
  the 
  evidence 
  regard 
  the 
  authcnticitv 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  