66 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Brown curlew, corbigeau au long bec (long-billed curlew), courlis 4 long bec (long- 
billed curlew), courlis d’Amérique, curvebill, daddy-long-legs, great curlew, sabre- 
bill, sicklebill snipe, wheu-bird. 
264.1 European Curlew (Numenius arquatus). 
Range.—Breeds in northern Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa and southern Asia; accidental in 
Greenland. 
Names.—In Great Britain this species is ordinarily called curlew, but also jack 
curlew, whaup, and whitterick. An American book name is English curlew. In 
France it is called courlis cendré (gray curlew); gorlieu; and grand courlis (big curlew). 
265. Hudsonian Curlew (Numenius hudsonicus). (Fic. 49.) 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds on the coast of Alaska from mouth of Yukon to Kotzebue 
Sound, and on the coast of northern Mackenzie (N. W. T.); winters from Lower California to southern 
Honduras, from Ecuador tosouthern Chile, and from British Guiana to the mouth of the Amazon; migrates 
mainly along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts; rare in the interior; casual on the Pribilof Islands and in 
Greenland and Bermuda; accidentalin Spain. 
Fic. 49.—Hudsonian Curlew. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Curlew. 
In local use.—Bluelegs (Mass.); crooked-billed marlin (N. J.); curlew snipe (La.); 
foolish curlew (Mass.); hook-billed marlin, horse-foot marlin (N. J.); jack curlew, jack 
(Me., Mass., R. I., Long Id., N. Y., N. J., Md., Ind., Ala.); jacksnipe (Long Id., 
N. Y.); marlin (N. J.); sea snipe (La.); short-billed curlew (N. J., Md.); small curlew 
(N. J.); straight-billed curlew (Calif.); striped-head (Va.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., jack, jack curlew; Calif., straight-billed curlew; Jnd., jack, 
jack curlew; La., curlew snipe, sea snipe; Me., jack, jack curlew; Mass., bluelegs, 
foolish curlew, jack, jack curlew; Md., jack curlew, short-billed curlew; V. J., crooked- 
billed marlin, hook-billed marlin, horse-foot marlin, jack, jack curlew, marlin, short- 
billed curlew, small curlew; NV. Y., jack, jack curlew, jack snipe; FR. I, jack, jack 
curlew; Va., striped-head. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American whimbrel, corbigeau du nord (northern curlew), courlis de la baie 
d’Hudson (Hudson Bay curlew), courlis du nord (northern curlew), curve-billed 
snipe, Eskimo curlew, Eskimo whimbrel, Hudson curlew, large speckled curlew. 
