492 BIEDS — SOOLOPACIDiE. 



Bill of extreme length and onrvature, measuring from 5 to 8 or 9 inches ; total length, 

 abont 2 feet ; wing, a foot or leas ; tail, abont 4 ; tarsus, 2^-21. Plumage very similar 

 to that of the GJodwit, prevailing tone rufons, of varing intensity in different birds and 

 in different parts of the same bird, usnally more intense under the wing than elsewhere ; 

 below, the jugulum streaked, and the breast and sides with arrow-heads and bars of 

 dusky ; above, variegated with black, especially on the crown, back and wings ; tail 

 barred throughout with black and mSaus ; secondaries rufons ; primaries blackish and 

 mfouB ; no pure white anywhere ; bill black, the under mandible flesh-oolored for some 

 distance ; legs dark. 



Habitat, United States and British Piorinoes. Breeds nearly tkroughout its range, 

 and resident in the South. South to Mexico. Guatemala. Cuba. 



Formerly 6ot uncommon and probably summer resident ; of late rare 

 and known only as a migrant. Dr. Kirtland mentions its capture in 

 18S7, and in 1841, quoted on page 220, speal'ks of it as if of common occur- 

 rence. Mr. Langdon notes three or four specimens from the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati. I have seen specimens captured at Licking Reservoir. It 

 may sometimes breed at St. Mary's Reservoir and other localities of 

 Northwestern Ohio, as it is known to breed in Northern Illinois. 



"The eggs of the Long-bUled Curlew are not often sopyriform as among the smaller 

 waders, being in shape not unlike hen's eggs. Different specimens measure : 2.45 by 

 1.85 ; 2.60 by 1.80 ; 2.65 by 1.80 ; 2.70 by 1.90 ; 2.80 by 1.90. They are clay-colored, with 

 more or less olivaceous in some instances, and in others decidedly buffy shade. The 

 spotting is generally pretty uniformly distributed and of small pattern, though in many 

 cases there is larger blotching and even massing abont the great end. The color of the 

 markings is sepia or umber, of different shades, in the buffy-tinged specimens, rather 

 tending to chocolate. The shell-markings, are oommnoly numerous and evident." 

 (Cones, Birds N. W. p., 509). 



NUMSNIUS HUDSONICUS Lath. 

 £CxidBorun.ii Curlew. 

 Numenius Imdionioua, Kiktlamd, Ohio Qeolog. Surv., 1838, 165, 185. — Whbaton, Ohio 

 Agric. Eep. for 1860, 369 ; Eeprint, 1861, 11 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. 

 for 1874, 573 ; Eeprint, 1875, 18.— LiLNGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 15 ; Eevised 

 List, Jonrn. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188 ; Eeprint, 22, 



Numtniut hudionioua, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 712. 



Bill medium, 3 or 4 inches long ; length, 16-18 ; wing, 9 ; tail, 3^ ; tarsus, 2i-2i 

 Plumage as in the last species in pattern, bat general tone much paler ; quills barred. 



Habitat, North America. Greenland. Central and South America. Breeds in high 

 latitudes. Migratory through the United States, wintering in the Southern States and 

 far beyond. 



Rare spring and fall migrant. Dr. Kirtland says that a specimen was 

 taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati which was preserved in DorfeuiUe's 

 Museum, and that he possessed a specimen from Cleveland. Mr. Lang- 

 don omits it from his list, but cites the above reference to Dr. Kirtland 



