LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 71 
appeared m the Lesser Antilles, on the coast of Venezuela (Hartert), 
and in Mexico (Brown); indeed, in 1892 a specimen was taken in 
northern Lower California the first day of July (Mearns). 
‘The last seen at Chilliwack, British Columbia, was October 9, 
1888 (Brooks); average of the last: seen at Columbia Falls, Mont., 
September 19, latest September 22, 1895 (Williams); Aweme, Mani- 
toba, average September 5, latest September 11, 1903 (Criddle); 
Lincoln, Nebr., September 29, 1900 (Wolcott); Lawrence, Kans., 
October 14, 1905 (Wetmore); Lanesboro, Minn., November 2, 1886 
(Hvoslef) ; Ottawa, Ontario, average September 18, latest October 28, 
1902 (White) ; southern Ontario, average September 30, latest October 
25, 1902 (Saunders); Oberlin, Ohio, average September 20, latest 
October 30, 1905 (Jones); Scotch Lake, New Brunswick, October 5,' 
1901 (Moore) ; southwestern Maine, average October 1, latest; October 
6, 1900 (Johnson); eastern Massachusetts, average October 7, latest 
November 14 (Townsend); Hartford, Conn., average October 8, latest 
October 12, 1902 (Case); Ossining, N. Y., October 23 (Fisher); 
Washington, D. C., October 28, 1906 (Fisher); near New Orleans, 
La.; latest November 5, 1902, November 10, 1903 (Allison). 
Long-billed Curlew. - Numenius americanus Bechstein. 
Breeding range.—The principal summer home of the long-billed 
curlew ‘is in the interior of the United States on the northern half of 
the plains. Southward'it has been known to breed to Oklahoma 
(Camp Supply; Wilcox), northwestern Texas (McCauley), central 
New Mexico (Los Pinos; Woodhouse), southern Arizona (Sulphur 
Spring; Henshaw), and northwestern California in the Pit River 
region (Grinnell). To the northward it breeds to central British 
Columbia (150-mile House; Brooks), southern Alberta (Bow River; 
Macoun), southern Saskatchewan (Medicine Hat; Macoun), and 
southern Manitoba (Seton). The long-billed curlew was formerly 
common in the eastern part of the Mississippi Valley and abundant 
on the Atlantic coast, but of late years the numbers have been so 
reduced that now it is merely casual or accidental east of the Missis- 
sippi. There are records of the former breeding of the species in 
northern Iowa (Preston), Wisconsin (Hoy), southern Michigan 
(Jackson; Davis), and northern Illinois (Ridgway). The species, 
was an abundant migrant on the southern Atlantic coast and less 
common north to Newfoundland (Reeks), and there are various sur- 
mises that it bred at various places, such as the west coast of Florida 
(Scott), coast of New Jersey (Wilson), and Prince Edward Island 
(Boardman), but most if not all of these breeding records were based 
on the presence of the birds in J uly, and there seems to be no authentic 
record of eggs anywhere east of Michigan. el 
Winter range.—The species winters on the Atlantic coast from 
South Carolina (Nuttall) to Florida: (Allen) ; on the coast of Louisiana 
(Beyer) and Texas (Merrill) ; in southern Arizona (specimen in United. 
