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HuDSONiAJT CuELEW (Numenius Hvdsonicm). First 

 fomid by Captain McLeod, on the 26th of September, 1848, 

 and now in the Eev. H. B. Tristram's collection. It arrives 

 early ia August, but is so shy of approach, one can rarely 

 get within shot of it. 



Esquimaux Curlew (N. hormlis). This bird is not so 

 wary as the last, but is still very difficult to approach. On 

 the 25th of September, 1848, I at last succeeded in killing 

 a very fine specimen at Mangrove Bay, Somerset ; and at 

 the same time, three golden plover, one sanderling, and , 

 four tumstone^, which were all feeding close together. I 

 saw one on the 15th of September, 1848, at Spanish Point, 

 besides various others, which I could not, however, get 

 within shot of. 



The Willet (Totamos semijpalmatus). Only one ex- 

 ample of this bird, which I shot myseH, on Pearl Island, 

 the 3rd of July, 1848. 



Tell-tale Tattlee {T. vodferus). These birds arrive in 

 the month of August, and are more or less common in some 

 seasons. On the 4th of August, 1848, I observed a good 

 many of them at Chief Justice Butterfield's pond, in 

 company with a great many yeUow-shanks tattlers, stints, 

 and semipalmated sandpipers. On the 20th of September, 

 1848, I noticed a very large flock going off in a south- 

 easterly direction. They are sometimes met with tiU the 

 10th of November. 



Yellow-shanks Tattlee (T. flampes). These birds arrive 

 regularly about the 1st of August, in each year, being one 

 of the earliest visitors from the north. It remains till the. 

 middle or end of September. On the 13th of July, 1847, 

 one of the men of my company, caught one in an exhausted 



