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132. Numenius hudsonicus Lath. 

 HuDSONiAN Curlew. 



Local name: Jack Curlew. 



Distr.: All of North and South America, including the West 

 Indies; breeds in the far north; winters chiefly south of the United 

 States. 



Adult in summer: Bill, curved downward, top of the head, brown, 

 with a stripe of buffy white through the middle; rest of upper parts, 

 dark brown; feathers, pale on the edges, giving a slightly mottled 

 appearance to the back; chin, white; throat and breast, streaked 

 and faintly barred with brown and white ; belly, dull white ; an imper- 

 fect superciliary stripe; axillars, pale buff, barred with slaty brown; 

 first primary, barred on inner web. 



First primary. 



Axillars. 



Adult in winter: Similar to the last, but showing much more 

 tawny, mottled on the upper parts, and the under parts, paler; a 

 superciliary stripe of dull white; axillars, pale buff, barred with slaty 

 brown; first primary, barred on inner web. 



Length, 17.50; wing, 9.20; tarsus, 2.30; bill, 3 to 3.75. 



Although once common, the Hudsonian Curlew is now a rare 

 bird in Illinois and Wisconsin during the migrations. 



133. Numenius borealis (Forst.). 

 Eskimo Curlew. 



Local name: Dough Bird. 



Distr.: Eastern North America, breeding in high arctic latitudes; 

 south in winter to southern South America. 



Adult in summer: Bill, curved downward; general plumage above, 



