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Eskimo Curlew taken at Newburyport, Mass.— I purchased of Mr. John 
; ? rdy ° f * he Boston Market, a male Eskimo Curlew ( Numenius borealis) 
taken at Newburyport, Mass., by A. B. Thomas, August 27, 1908 He 
shot two, but the other bird had its head so badly shot that it could not 
e made into a skin. John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 
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Eskimo Curlew ( Numenius borealis) in Massachusetts. — On Sep- 
tember 5, 1913, an Eskimo Curlew was taken on the marsh at East Orleans, 
Mass., by Mr. John Greenough Rogers. 
The bird was alone and when taken the weather was thick and raining 
with an east wind, and since the afternoon of the day before the wind had 
been northeast to east with rain most of the time. 
After the bird was shot, what appeared like hardened whitish grease 
formed at the nostrils. The centre feathers of the under tail-coverts and 
the under sides of the ends of the tail feathers were stained a purple color. 
There was nothing in the stomach but the bird was very fat. 
The specimen was preserved and is now in my collection. — Charles R. 
Lamb, Cambridge, Mass. SO, Oct 1013. p. /, 
