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penetrating even into the remote territories of the west, cours- 
ing along the great valley of the Mississippi, and extending its 
wanderings into the southern hemisphere as far as Brazil and 
Paraguay. These birds arrive at Hudson Bay in April or early 
in May, but breed to the north of Albany Fort, returning to 
the marshes with their young in August, and retire from that 
country early in September. Indeed, accompanied probably 
by the preceding, they frequent in summer the wide extent of 
Barren Lands within the Arctic circle, feeding usually on aqua- 
tic insects, their larvse, and when ripe, the fruit of the crow- 
berry {Empetrum nigrum). On the 13th of June, 1S22, Dr. 
Richardson discovered one of these Curlews sitting on three 
eggs on the shore of Point Lake. When approached, she ran a 
short distance from the nest, crouching near to the ground, 
and then stopped to watch the motions of her encroaching 
visitor. 
About the close of August or beginning of September these 
Curlews, accompanied by birds of the preceding species, arrive 
on the shores of Massachusetts Bay ; and frequenting the 
marshes and adjoining pastures, feed at this time much upon 
grasshoppers, coleoptera, and earth-worms, which they collect 
principally towards evening or early in the morning. On their 
way to the South they also visit Nova Scotia and Newfound- 
land, where they remain till the approach of winter ; and in 
New Jersey these birds linger on till the month of November, 
when they apparently, without further delay, pass on to the 
south of the United States, for in other parts of the Union they 
appear to be wholly unknown. Like the other species, they 
are remarkably gregarious, each company seeming to follow 
some temporary leader; and on starting to wing, a sort of 
watch -cry is heard, resembling the whistling pronunciation of 
the word bee-bee. On their arrival from the North they are 
''ery fat, plump, and well flavored, and included, like both the 
preceding species and the Marbled Godwit, under the general 
name of Doebirds, they are sought out by epicures and en- 
ance the value of a table entertainment. Pennant remarks, 
on the authority of Hutchins, that one year, from the 9th of 
