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appeared in the Lesser Antilles, on the coast of Venezuela (Hartert), 

 and in Mexico (Brown); indeed, in 1892 a specimen was taken in 

 northern Lower California the first day of July (Mearns) . 



The last seen at Chilliwack, British Columbia, was October 9, 

 1888 (Brooks) ; average of the last seen at Columbia Falls, Mont., 

 September 19, latest September 22, 1895 (Williams); Aweme, Mani- 

 toba, average September 5, latest September 11, 1903 (Criddle) ; 

 Lincoln, Nebr., September 29, 1900 (Wolcott); Lawrence, Kans., 

 October 14, 1905 (Wetmore) ; Lanesboro, Minn., November 2, 1886 

 (Hvoslef) ; Ottawa, Ontario, average September 18, latest October 28, 

 1902 (White) ; southern Ontario, average September 30, latest October 

 25, 1902 (Saunders); Oberlin, Ohio, average September 20, latest 

 October 30, 1905 (Jones) ; Scotch Lake, New Brunswick, October 5, 

 1901 (Moore) ; southwestern Maine, average October 1, latest October 

 6, 1900 (Johnson); eastern Massachusetts, average October 7, latest 

 October 14, 1895 (Farmer); Hartford, Conn., average October 8, 

 latest October 12, 1902 (Case); Ossining, N. Y., October 23 (Fisher); 

 Washington, D. C, October 28, 1906 (Fisher); near New Orleans, 

 La., latest November 5, 1902, November 10, 1903 (Allison). 

 Long-billed Curlew. Numenius americanus Bechstein. 



Breeding range. — The principal summer home of the long-billed 

 curlew is in the interior of the United States on the northern half of 

 the plains. Southward it has been known to breed to Oklahoma 

 (Camp Supply; Wilcox), northwestern Texas (McCauley), central 

 New Mexico (Los Pinos; Woodhouse), southern Arizona (Sulphur 

 Spring; Henshaw), and northwestern California in the Pit River 

 region (Grinnell). To the northward it breeds to central British 

 Columbia (150-mile House; Brooks), southern Alberta (Bow River; 

 Macoun), southern Saskatchewan (Medicine Hat; Macoun), and 

 southern Manitoba (Seton). The long-billed curlew was formerly 

 common in the eastern part of the Mississippi Valley and abundant 

 on the Atlantic coast, but of late years the numbers have been so 

 reduced that now it is merely casual or accidental east of the Missis- 

 sippi. There are records of the former breeding of the species in 

 northern Iowa (Preston), Wisconsin (Hoy), southern Michigan 

 (Jackson; Davis), and northern Illinois (Ridgway). The species 

 was an abundant migrant on the southern Atlantic coast and less 

 common north to Newfoundland (Reeks), and there are various sur- 

 mises that it bred at various places, such as the west coast of Florida 

 (Scott), coast of New Jersey (Wilson), and Prince Edward Island 

 (Boardman), but most if not all of these breeding records were based 

 on the presence of the birds in July, and there seems to be no authentic 

 record of eggs anywhere east of Michigan. 



Winter range. — The species winters on the Atlantic coast from 

 South Carolina (Nuttall) to Florida (Allen) ; on the coast of Louisiana 

 (Beyer) and Texas (Merrill) ; in southern Arizona (specimen in United 



