Birds -within Ten Miles of Pcu,-. 
de Monts, Can, Goiaeau & MerriaL 
98. Numenius borealis. Eskimo Curlew. — Common in August 
and September. 
Bull, N, O, Q f 7, Oot, 1882, p, 239 
leak, XIII, April, 1896, p , / &X , 
Sundry Notes. — New London, Prince Edwards Island, Sept. I, 1872. 
Mr. William Everett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, saw to-day a flock of 
about fifty Eskimo Curlew ( N umenius bo realist which had that day landed 
in a field where a man was ploughing. This man informed him that thev 
weie veiy tame and had been following the furrows picking up and eating 
earth-worms. This Mr. Everett saw them do, after which he shot fifteen 
by walking up to them. On examination he found that all those shot 
were poor, having no fat. fMAc/ia-y n 
Birds of N.E. coast of Labrador 
by Henry B. Bigelow. 
50. Numenius borealis. Eskimo Curlew. — The Eskimo Curlew are 
hardly a remnant of their former numbers. I made careful inquiries 
among the settlers, and obtained the following rather interesting informa- 
tion : (1) The curlew remained in all their former numbers, in spite of 
the persecution to which they were subjected, until eight years ago. (2) 
They then appeared no more. I heard of only about a dozen, which were 
seen on the coast this fall. Of these I saw five. 
Auk, XIX, Jan., 1902, p.29. 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James H. Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
Auk , XXIII, Oct., I90G , n.451 . 
106. Numenius borealis. Eskimo Curlew. — There are two speci- 
mens, said to have been taken on Toronto Island in 1864, in the museum 
of the Geological Survey at Ottawa; the authority is Mr. S. Herring, who 
mounted the birds. The Eskimo Curlew can never have been more than 
accidental on Lake Ontario. I have carefully examined all the material 
available, and have so far found only two more records, one in the 
Mcllwraith collection taken at Hamilton, 1 I think an adult; the other was 
taken at Wolf Island, near Kingston, Ont., October 10, 1873, and is marked 
“female.” I think is it a young bird; it is now in the British Museum. 
1 Mcllwraith, Birds of Ontario, 1894, 160. 
TiojX-sZcniJj JdcmcocA Co, ■ 
A Recent Record for the Eskimo Curlew. — On November 22, while at 
the University of Maine, I noticed among the accessions to the Museum a 
very fine specimen of the Eskimo Curlew which had been recently mounted. 
This bird is a male and was taken at Hog Island, Hancock County, Maine, 
on September 2, 1909, by Mr. Cyrus S. Winch, the taxidermist for the 
University. This is the first record of the species along the Maine coast for 
several years. Mr. Winch also had a Hudsonian 'Curlew taken at the 
same locality by a fisherman a day or so before he arrived there. — Ora 
Willis Knight, Bangor, Me. 
Auk 27. Jan- 10IO p. 
