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Distrihulion in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor, It has 

 occurred about four times in England : — two, Suffolk, Nov. 

 1862, and one reported prior to 1870 ; Scilly Islands, Sept. 

 1887 ; three times in Scotland, Kincardineshire, Sept. 1855 

 and Sept. 1880, Aberdeen, Sept. 1879 ; once in Ireland, 

 Dublin Market (believed to be from co. Sligo), 1870. 



General Distribution. — The Eskimo Curlew breeds in 

 North America from northern ALiska to Hudson Bay. 

 In winter it visits South America, extending to Chile, 

 Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands ; also to the Gala- 

 pagos Islands. It is accidental in Greenland and the 

 Pribilof Islands. It is said to be nearly extinct. 



Numenius tenuirostris. Slender-billed 



CUKLEW. 



Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 viii. 1817, p. 302 : Egypt. 



Numenius tenuirostris Vieill. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 

 1896, p. 348 ; Nicoll, ' British Birds,' v. 1911, p. 124. 



Tenuirostris = slender-beaked, from tenuis and rostrum. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bare Visitor. Three 

 are said to have been shot near Brookland, Kent, Sept. 

 1910. 



General Distribution. — The Slender-billed Curlew breeds in 

 the district of Tobolsk and at Lake Tschany, Gouv. Tomsk, in 

 western Siberia ; also it is said in the Governments of Oren- 

 burg and of Kherson and Taurida, bordering the Black sea. 

 It winters in the countries bordering the Mediterranean, west- 

 wards to southern France and Algeria. On passage it is 

 known in south-east Russia, Austria and Hungary, and has 

 occurred in Germany, Heligoland, Holland, Belgium, and 

 northern France. 



