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BOOK NAMES. 
Grive d’eau (water thrush), maubéche tacheté (spotted sand-piper), oxeye, river 
peet-weet, river snipe, river tip-up, sand peep, spotted sand-lark, spotted tattler, 
spotted tringa, tattler, teeterer, tip-tail, wagtail, weet-weet. 
<64. Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus). (Fie. 48.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, southern Saskatchewan, and Mani- 
toba to northeastern California, northern New Mexico, and northwestern Texas, formerly to Iowa and 
Illinois; winters from central California and southern Arizona south to Guatemala, and on the Atlantic coast 
from South Carolina to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas; formerly a regular migrant north to Massachusetts 
aad rarely to Newfoundland; now a straggler east of the Mississippi, north of Florida; casualin the West 
ndies. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Curlew. 
In local use.—Big curlew (Mass. to Md.); brachvégel (field-bird) (Mo.); buzzard 
curlew (N. J.); corbigeau (one of the French vernacular names for curlew, corbeau is 
FIG. 48.—Long-billed Curlew. 
crow) (La.); curlew-bird (Md.); hen curlew, old hen curlew (Mass.); long-billed 
curlew (N. J., Md., Fla., Miss., La., Nebr.); lousy-Bill, mowyer (N. J.); sicklebill, 
sicklebill curlew (Me., Mass., R. I., Long Id., N. Y., Md., Va., Ala.); sicklebill 
plover (Me.); smoker, old-smoker (N. J.); Spanish curlew (8S. C., Ga., Fla.); turkey 
curlew (Prince Edward Id.). : ’ 
Geographic index.—Ala., sicklebill, sicklebill curlew; Conn., big curlew; Del., big 
curlew; Fla., long-billed curlew, Spanish curlew; Ga., Spanish curlew; La., corbigeau, 
long-billed curlew;- Me., sicklebill, sicklebill curlew, sicklebill plover; Md., big 
curlew, curlew-bird, long-billed curlew, sickle-billed curlew; Mass., big curlew, hen 
curlew, old hen curlew, sicklebill, sicklebill curlew; Miss., long-billed curlew; Mo., 
brachvogel; Nebr., long-billed curlew; NV. J., big curlew, buzzard curlew, long-billed 
curlew, lousy-Bill, mowyer, smoker, old-smoker; NV. Y., big curlew, sicklebill, 
sicklebill curlew; P. H. I., turkey curlew; hk. J., big curlew, sicklebill, sicklebill 
eurlew; S. C., Spanish curlew; Va., sicklebill, sicklebill curlew. 
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