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ESQUIMAUX CURLEW. 
and never on the borders of rivers or marshes : hence he calls it 
field Curlew, Chorlito champetre. 
At Hudson’s Bay this Curlew makes its appearance early in 
May, coming from the south, and going further north, returning 
again to Albany Fort in August: it remains there till September, 
when it departs for the south. It is common in Maine and Nova 
Scotia during the months of October and November, and still more 
so at Newfoundland. We have received it from Maine, and from 
Prairie du Chien in Michigan, and have occasionally met with it 
also in the markets of New York and Philadelphia: in the middle 
states, however, it is by no means common, having escaped the 
industrious Wilson. This fact proves that our Curlew is fond of 
extremely remote regions, without remaining for any length of 
time in the intervening countries between its winter and summer 
residences. They collect in small flocks of from ten to twenty; 
and when starting on the wing utter a cry resembling bibi; this 
whistling note may be heard at a distance. The Esquimaux 
Curlew lays four eggs, and keeps in flocks composed of young 
and old together: they feed much on the berries of Empetrum 
nigrum , which imparts to their flesh a delicate flavour. 
It has been the lot of all the species of Curlews to be wantonly 
confounded with each other: only two were reckoned as European, 
and in them were merged as identical the three American. The 
longirostris was first definitively disunited from the arquata by 
Wilson. Vieillot unaccountably confounded as one two very 
different species, giving it more than one name, however. The 
hudsonicus, though correctly described by Latham, was referred by 
all writers, including Temminck, to the European Whimbrel, W. 
phaeopus. The present one he forbore, through extreme caution, 
to unite also with it, observing that it might be a real species, or 
at least a constant variety. But when the bird actually fell into 
his hands, he called his specimens, which were from South Ame- 
