218 FEATHERED GAME 
When dwelling on the coast its food is mostly of 
crabs of the smaller sorts, sea snails and ‘‘wrig- 
glers’’ of various kinds, but in the inland coun- 
try its table is furnished with grass-hoppers 
and berries and the same menu which is set be- 
fore the ‘‘upland plover’’ in the same places. 
They often make long trips for delicacies of this 
sort when dwelling on the coast, and the low, 
berry-covered heaths lining the shores furnish 
great attractions to migrant flocks. 
HUDSONIAN CURLEW. ‘JACK CUR- 
LEW.”’ 
(Numenius hudsonicus.) 
Of the two species which we may call common 
to New England this is the one more rarely 
taken within our borders. In the main it is 
found here during the season of the fall migra- 
tions, when it inhabits either the outer sea 
islands, the sandy ocean beaches or the sea 
marshes, but most of all the uninhabited grassy 
islands well offshore. It is one of the wariest 
of the waders, shy and difficult of approach, 
though sometimes giving good sport over de- 
