The Long-billed Curlew has forsaken our shore 
entiiely, save a few stray birds which drop in upon us about the 
fiist of September, or a small flock is started in some remote and 
sequestered beach. They rarely venture upon the uplands, as I 
can remember them doing years ago. None of the family ever 
visit us in the spring now-a-days ; it is only in their autumnal 
migrations that they favor us with a visit, and even now flocks 
are seen passing over the country high in the air 'and steering due 
cuAz. /a.v/- 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James H. Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
Hypothetical List. 
A u a , XXI xx, Oct., 1906 , p . 453 . 
16 . Numenius longirostris. Long-billed Curlew. — There has 
been considerable confusion in the identification of the three curlews cred- 
ited to the Great Lakes; a very careful search has failed to find any authen- 
tic specimen from this region of the Long-billed Curlew; I have however 
found the Hudsonian Curlew so named, and the Eskimo Curlew marked 
Hudsonian There is in the museum of Toronto University a correctly 
i ratified Long-billed Curlew, but the collection is a general one, and the 
bird may have come from anywhere. Prof. Hincks gives it in his list, and 
■one was sent to Pans; there are none in any Ontario collections I have 
