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States National Museum); and in California north to Owen Lake 

 (Fisher) and San Francisco (Newberry). It also ranges south through 

 Mexico to the Pacific coast of Guatemala at Chiapam (Salvin). It 

 is a casual wanderer in the West Indies; Cuba, June, July, October 

 (Gundlach); Jamaica, July, 1863 (March); St. Vincent, once in the 

 fall (Lawrence). 



Spring migration. — When the long-billed curlew was common on 

 the Atlantic coast, it was seldom seen in spring north of the Carolinas; 

 the few individuals that passed up the New England coast usually 

 appeared in May: Hail Point, Maryland, May 23, 1893 (Kirkwood); 

 Scarboro, Me., May 2, 1866 (Knight). Migration in the Mississippi 

 Valley begins in March: Eagle Pass, March 5, 1885 (Negley); Pecos 

 City, March 9, 1906 (Ligon); Gainesville, March 4, 1876 (Ragsdale)— 

 all in Texas; Warrensburg, Mo., April 1, 1874 (Scott) ; Apple ton City, 

 Mo., April 3, 1906 (Prier); central Illinois, average April 9; Jasper, 

 Ind., April 2, 1896 (Butler); central Iowa, average April 11, earliest 

 April 3, 1883 (Lindley); northern Nebraska, average April 3, earliest 

 March 28, 1889 (Bates) ; Vermilion, S. Dak., April 5 ,1884 (Agersborg) ; 

 central North Dakota, average April 15, earliest April 8, 1886 (Ed- 

 wards); Aweme, Manitoba, average April 22, earliest April 9, 1902 

 (Criddle); Apache, N. Mex., March 25, 1886 (Anthony); Utah Lake, 

 Utah, March 30, 1899 (Johnson) ; northern Colorado, average April 14, 

 earliest April 10, 1889 (Smith); Cheyenne, Wyo., average April 18, 

 earliest April 15, 1889 (Bond); Terry, Mont., average April 16, earliest 

 April 7, 1906 (Cameron); Big Sandy, Mont., average April 19, earliest 

 April 13, 1903 (Coubeaux); Fort Klamath, Oreg., March 28, 1887 

 (Merrill) ; Chelan, Wash., April 6, 1896 (Dawson) ; Okanagan Landing, 

 British Columbia, April 12, 1906 (Brooks). 



Eggs have been taken at Camp Harney, Oregon, April 30, 1876 

 (Bendire); Fort Klamath, Oreg., May 7, 1878 (Mearns); Lewistown, 

 Mont., May 13, 1902 (Silloway); Fort Lapwai, Idaho, May 21, 1871 

 (Bendire); Cody, Nebr., young just hatched June 23, 1895 (Trostler); 

 southern Saskatchewan, downy young June 1, 1905 (Bent); June 11 

 and 18, 1906 (Bent). 



Fall migration. — Flocks of fall migrants used to appear on the 

 Atlantic coast about the middle of July (Mearns) and reach .South 

 Carolina by early August (Hoxie). They returned to Monterey Bay, 

 California, July 17, 1894 (Loomis), and arrived at Cape St. Lucas, 

 Lower California, September 15, 1859 (Xantus). The last one seen 

 at Montreal in 1893 was observed September 21 (Wintle), and on the 

 coast of Massachusetts the species has been noted to October 18 

 (Howe and Allen) . 



Hudsonian Curlew. Numenius hudsonicus Lath. 



Breeding range. — The Hudsonian curlew, or jack curlew as it is 

 called by sportsmen, is known to breed on the barren grounds of 

 northern Mackenzie (MacFarlane) and on the western coast of 



