LONG-BILLED CTLRLEW. 
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These birds, “S * • • I ' ' € - 
of the lar^t of out sh< re birds. They are wry .onspnmns 
when in flight, or walking on the marshes or sar ibars. them 
. . _ . . intie when in mhj . • . k 
smaller\ir as. as sometimes happens. They fee; both on the 
marshes and in shallow water, tneir food consisting of nn^ 
and small crustaceans, the latter which they P nH from thew 
holes in the sand with their long curved bill They _y in 
c-ompac-t flocks, evidently led by one leader, for ^hey wheel 
and circle in ■perfect tinisun. 
Hot—Then nests m fheed the -- : e:. : s 
■ z - - ■ three . f 1 eggs re - - _ . . =- 
buff color, covered with numerous spots of .ark brown —jJ n 
HTJDSONIAN CURLEW. 
This is more’ grayish than the above: primaries black: a 
white stripe along 'the top of the'head: is fairly common, 
winters in California. Three or four eggs, same color as 
aloove. onlv smaller -_5 n 1.60 . 
