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just as common as N. arquatus in the districts of Kieff, and breeds there, although the latter is 

 only met with during migration. It seems that this species only breeds in the steppes of Eastern 

 Europe, although the Curlew also breeds in the marshes which are covered with tree-growth. 

 All the specimens from Eastern and Western Siberia which I have seen differ somewhat from 

 the European bird." 



It passes regularly through Northern Germany, but is commoner on the shores of the Baltic 

 than on those of the North Sea. In Denmark, we are informed by Mr. Benzon, it occurs during 

 the two seasons of migration, but has not been known to breed there. It is not so numerous as 

 the Curlew. In Holland, Belgium, and France it occurs during migration ; but in Southern 

 France it is, according to Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye, never numerous. Professor 

 Barboza du Bocage records it as " common " in Portugal ; and Dr. E. Key writes that he observed 

 several large flocks near Barreiro in that country in the middle of March. Mr. Howard Saunders 

 met with it commonly in Spain in the winter season ; but Major Irby writes that in Spain and 

 Tangiers it is met with in spring and autumn, not in the winter; Lord Lilford found it in 

 the savannas of the Coto de Donana in May; and, passing eastward, we find it recorded as 

 occurring during migration in Savoy and various parts of Italy, though nowhere so common 

 as the Curlew. Mr. C. A. Wright includes it in his list of the birds of Malta and Gozo, but 

 without comment as to whether it is common or rare. We may here pause a moment to correct 

 an inadvertent error in our article on Numenius tenuirostris, which our friend Mr. Wright has 

 especially desired us to point out. Quoting Dr. Bree's well-known work we referred to its 

 breeding there and nesting " in meadows and heaths," respecting which Mr. Wright says, " We 

 have no meadows and heaths in this rocky island ; and, as for its breeding, there is not a spot in 

 the whole of Malta and its dependencies that a sane Curlew would ever dream of selecting for 

 its nest." 



Returning again to the present species, we find it occurring all along the coasts of the 

 Mediterranean, though nowhere common. Lord Lilford met with it " sparingly in April and in 

 September in Corfu and Epirus ; " and Lindermayer states that it is found during the winter in 

 all the Greek provinces, and that it breeds in the north of Greece ; but this latter statement we 

 are inclined to doubt, and think that if any species breeds there it will not be the present bird, 

 but N. tenuirostris. Mr. G. Cavendish Taylor records it as occurring near Constantinople ; and it 

 is, according to Von Nordmann, " common near Odessa," where he observed it as late as May. 

 Menetries met with it in the Caucasus, on the banks of rivers ; and doubtless it also occurs on 

 the shores of Asia Minor. Brehm, Ruppell, and Heuglin all record it from Egypt, and Captain 

 Shelley writes that it is met with in the winter in small flocks on the banks of the Nile. Loche 

 writes that it is only met with in Algeria during passage, when it " appears in small families 

 from the end of August to about the 15th of September, and again about the end of the winter;" 

 and Mr. Taczanowski confirms this statement. Mr. E. Vernon Harcourt met with it on Madeira. 

 Dr. E. Bolle found it on Canaria, where, he says, " it appears not uncommonly on the coasts of 

 Fuertaventura, generally, however, in the autumn and winter, and is there called Serapico 

 cachimbero ;" and Mr. F. DuCane Godman records it from the eastern, central, and western 

 groups of the Azores, and states that it is occasionally found about the coasts, where he saw it, 

 but much doubts its breeding there regularly. 



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