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and from Central America, where it passes the winter months, to the Arctic Ocean, on 
the borders of which it breeds. In Alaska Mr. Bannister saw it on the Island of St. 
Michael’s, where, however, it was not very common. It was obtained at Sitka by Mr. 
Bischoff ; and Mr. Dali states that it was not rare at the mouth of the Yukon Biver, 
where its favorite attitude seemed to be sitting on a high stump or piece of drift- 
wood, or even an alder-bush when this was large enough, with one of its legs drawn 
up. Mr. Bernard Boss met with this Curlew in the neighborhood of Great Slave 
Lake. Professor Beinhardt includes it among the birds of Greenland on the strength 
of a single specimen — a female — sent from Godthaab by Holbbll. The latter men- 
tions having obtained it twice — at Julianehaab and Fiskernaes — and also one 
specimen from Jakobshavn. It occurs as a migratory visitant in the fall in Bermuda, 
where it arrives early in August, but is so shy of approach that one can hardly 
ever get within gunshot of it. It is found only in August and September. Dr. 
Kjaerbolling mentions (“Naumannia,” YI. 308) that he received a specimen of this 
Curlew from Iceland. Mr. B. Browne speaks of having seen it on Vancouver Island. 
Dr. Cooper noticed but few of this species on the southern coast of California, and 
these only in the spring, some remaining in flocks at Santa Barbara as late as May 
20, and a few go as far south as San Diego. Though not known to breed south of 
Hudson’s Bay, Dr. Cooper thinks that some may nest among the mountain lakes of 
California. He adds that, like the Long-billed Curlew, they fly with some approach 
to a regular order, generally in' the form of a V, and in company with most of the 
other shore-birds, circling high in the air with loud cries when the falling tide begins 
to lay their feeding-grounds bare. They are also common on the Pacific coast as far 
south as Guatemala, and Mr. Salvin found them very abundant about the lagoons of 
Cliiapam. 
Mr. Moore mentions that on the 22d of March, 1872, a single specimen of this 
Curlew was brought to him which had been killed on the shore of Sarasota Bay, 
where it was feeding in the water in company with Marbled Godwits, Bed-breasted 
Snipes, and Willets, as well as with a few others of its own species. It was the only 
bird of its kind ever seen by him in the flesh in Florida. 
It is not mentioned by Dr. Gundlacli as occurring in Cuba ; but Leotaud states 
that it is a regular visitant of Trinidad, and that, although known there as the Hud- 
sonian Curlew, it always seems to come from South America. If this were not the 
case, it would arrive in November, whereas, in fact, it always makes its appearance 
on that island in August, as if avoiding the colder regions of South America ; it 
departs in October. It is ahvavs found along the borders of the sea and in over- 
flowed meadows, where it searches for worms in the muddy bottoms. Its flesh is not 
held in high esteem in Trinidad, and, as Leotaud thinks, with good reason. 
Mr. Boardman informs me that this species is found in the fall in the neighborhood 
of Calais, but that it is never very common in that neighborhood. In Massachusetts 
it is quite abundant every year in the fall, coming from the north in irregular, pro- 
longed migrations, from the 25th of August until October. It is not known to occur 
in the spring in that State, although it may pass through in a prolonged nocturnal 
flight, since this bird is found on the shores of New Jersey and Long Island late in 
the month of May. A single specimen was procured by me at the Isles of Shoals 
on the 15th of August, 1879. 
According to Giraud, this Curlew arrives in May on Long Island, where it fre- 
quents the marshes and muddy flats, feeding on worms and minute shellfish, but not 
being so abundant there as are the Long-billed Curlews, with which it sometimes 
associates. It leaves and passes on to the north early in June, again making its 
