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MADAGASCAR CURLEW. 
This species, which greatly resembles the European 
one, is a native of North America, and is supposed 
to breed in Labrador, and in the vicinity of Hudson's 
Bay : it makes its appearance in the salt marshes of 
New Jersey about the middle of May, on its way to 
the north, and in September on its return from its 
breeding places. 
The food of these birds consists chiefly of small 
crabs, which they are very dexterous in procuring ; 
they also feed on small snails, on various worms and 
insects, and on bramble berries, in search of which 
they frequent the fields and uplands, and become 
very fat, after subsisting for some time upon them. 
They fly very high, generally in a wedge-like 
form, and occasionally utter their loud whistling 
note, by a skilful imitation of which a whole flock 
may sometimes be enticed within gun-shot, while 
the cries of the wounded are sure to detain them 
until the sportsman has made repeated shots and 
great havoc among them. 
MADAGASCAR CURLEW. 
(Numenius Madagascariensis.) 
Nu. rostra pedibiisquc nifescentibus, macidis griseis dorsi rhom- 
hoidalihns. 
Curlew with the beak and legs reddish, with rhomboidal grey 
spots on the back. 
Scolopax Madagascariensis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 242. 2. Gmel- 
Syst. Nat. \. 6.')5. 
