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shores of Labrador from Ungava to Mingan, and along the courses 
of the numerous rivers and the shores of lakes in the interior. The 
eggs are laid during the latter part of June or early in July and the 
young appear in July. 
Audubon in his Labrador journal speaks of finding a nest “made 
of a quantity of dried grass, forming a very decided nest, at least much 
more so than in our middle states.” 
We observed this bird only at Battle and Great Caribou Islands 
and at Cape Charles, four or five birds in all. At Battle Island on 
July 13th, we watched the manoeuvers of a pair of these birds in their 
efforts to drive a couple of Eskimo dogs away from the vicinity of their 
young which were probably hidden in the grass. The birds alter- 
natelv attacked the dogs and then allowed themselves to be chased 
by them. In the first instance the birds flew furiously at the dogs, 
almost striking them and whistling loudly. In the second instance, 
the birds flew away slowly close to the ground so that the dogs were 
tempted to chase them. The incident illustrated the dangers of 
Eskimo dogs as destroyers of eggs and young birds. 
[Numenius longirostris Wils. Long-billed Curlew. — Coues was assured 
of the occurrence of this bird in Labrador by hunters, but Audubon and Turner 
both state that they could obtain no evidence of its presence. As old female 
Hudsonian Curlews, with their long bills are often mistaken by gunners for 
this species, we have placed this bird in the doubtful list. It is western in its 
distribution.] 
Numenius hudsonicus Lath. 
Hudsonian Curlew. 
LTncoinmon autumn transient visitor. 
Coues saw a few and states that they were shy and were most numer¬ 
ous at the time N. borealis was taking its departure. Turner saw three 
at the mouth of the Koksoak River in September, 1882. Weiz records 
it at Okkak, and Stearns and Frazar both state that it is not a rare 
migrant in the autumn. Audubon, on the other hand, says: “En¬ 
tirely unknown. Even Air. Jones and his sons, who had probably 
killed thousands [of N. borealis ] .... had never seen it in the course 
of their long residence at Bras d’ Or.” On September 3, 1776, Cart¬ 
wright says that a curlew he had shot “weighed 15 oz. (the common 
