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and Cape May City, and at Eastville, Va., MAELIN (see No. 58) ; 

 and Mr. William Dutcher mentions it as " BROWN MARLIN of 

 the Long Island gunners," Auk, October, 1886. The name Mar- 

 lin comes from a resemblance in the bird's bill to the old-fash- 

 ioned marline-spike, which was more or less curved in shape. 



In New Jersey at Pleasantville (Atlantic Co.), Townsend In- 

 let, Cape May C. H., and Cape May City, SPIKE-BILL, and less 

 frequently, SPIKE-BILLED CURLEW. At Atlantic City, N. J., 

 Eastville, Va., to some at Morehead,* N. C, and in the vicinity 

 of Charleston, S. C, STRAIGHT-BILLED CURLEW; but more com- 

 monly termed in the last two localities, CURLEW simply (the true 

 curlews, genus Numenius, being generally referred to as the 

 "crooked -billed curlews"), Latham (1785) tells of its being 

 known as " curlew " at Hudson's Bay, and I have before spoken 

 of hearing it so termed at Salem, Mass. 



At Somers Point, N. J., HORSE-FOOT MARLIN (see No. 58). 



For the name Doe-bird, with which the species has been cred- 

 ited, see note (+) under No. 59. 



* I killed near Morehead, December 20th, one of the specimens from which 

 my description was taken. The species is quite common there, though not often 

 seen so late in the year. 



