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  Specimen 
  as 
  fully 
  established. 
  Experts 
  agree 
  that 
  the 
  mount 
  is 
  from 
  a 
  

   fresh 
  specimen 
  and 
  the 
  taxidermist 
  who 
  had 
  the 
  bird 
  and 
  asserted 
  that 
  it 
  

   was 
  brought 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  flesh 
  did 
  not 
  know 
  of 
  its 
  rarity. 
  Its 
  occurrence 
  

  

  o 
  

  

  in 
  America 
  is, 
  of 
  course, 
  purely 
  accidental. 
  

  

  European 
  curlew. 
  Numenius 
  ar 
  qua 
  t 
  us 
  (Linnaeus). 
  Long 
  Island 
  specimen. 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  5 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  Family 
  CHA.RADKIIOA.E 
  

  

  Plovers 
  

  

  Head, 
  large, 
  rounded 
  ; 
  neck 
  short 
  ; 
  bill 
  short 
  for 
  this 
  order, 
  being 
  scarcely 
  

   as 
  long, 
  or 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  head, 
  rather 
  cylindrical 
  and 
  pigeon 
  - 
  

   shaped,' 
  being 
  much 
  compressed 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  indented 
  opposite 
  the 
  

   nostrils, 
  and 
  the 
  hard 
  terminal 
  portion 
  enlarged 
  and 
  convex 
  and 
  quite 
  

  

  