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curlews, when able to procure such food, are 
very fond of berries and will travel long dis- 
tances to obtain them. In the fall months they 
are surprisingly fat after this diet. 
They arrive in New England, northward 
bound, in April or the first of May, but do not 
tarry on their journey, rarely stopping more 
than a day or two for food and rest. Their 
southern migration is performed more leisure- 
ly, the birds arriving during the first half of 
August, even the middle of July at times, and 
lingering on through their ‘‘vacation time’’ well 
into September. 
The curlews are very popular with the shore 
gunner and always welcome in his game bag. 
The sportsmen of this section still speak im- 
pressively of the great flight of these birds 
which landed upon our coast some twenty years 
ago. They haunted the high lands, the hay 
fields, and the ‘‘upland’’ country generally,— 
a matter of great surprise to the most of our 
baymen, who had been accustomed to find them 
mainly in the marshes and thought these places 
their only legitimate grounds. They were mov- 
ing southward leisurely, only going a few miles 
each day, so that they stayed nearly a week 
