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u This bird is more abundant at the south. On ‘Folly Island/ 
about $venty miles below Charleston, I am informed that many 
of them breed. They are regular visitors at Egg Harbor and 
Long Island in the spring and summer, and have been seen in 
the latter place as late as the middle of November. Mr. Brash¬ 
er informs me that he has met with it on the prairie lands in 
Illinois in the month of May. 
“ The Long-billed Curlew, or * Sickle-bill/ as many term it, 
frequents the muddy shores of beaches and marshes, where it 
collects minute shell-fish, which, with worms, and various in¬ 
sects, constitute its food. When moving about in flocks, they 
fly much after the manner of Wild Geese, the leaders uttering 
a hoarse, dull note, which, by imitating, the group readily 
obeys, and are proverbial for answering the fowler’s call when 
at a greater distance from his decoys than any other species of 
shore birds. When approaching near to the decoys, they spread 
their wings, and sail slowly up, presenting such a fair mark, 
that those singled out by the gunner seldom escape. Its flesh 
is rank, the young partaking of the same flavor. The sympa¬ 
thy existing in these birds is so strong, that I have known of 
instances of flocks being kept within gun-shot by the cries of 
their wounded companions, until as many as fifteen have shared 
a similar fate.” 
No. 2. The Hudsonian Curlew — Short-billed Curlew—Jack 
Curlew.—Numenius Hudsonicus. 
Esquimaux Curlew, Scolopax borealis, Wils. Amer. Orn. Numenius Hudsoni¬ 
cus, Bonap. Syn. Numenius Hudsonicus, Hudsonian Curlew, Sw. & Rich. 
Esquimaux Curlew, Numenius Hudsonicus, Nutt. Man. Hudsonian Curlew, 
Numenius Hudsonicus, Aud. Orn. Biog. 
“ Sjwcific Character .—Length of bill three inches and three- 
quarters ; tarsi two inches ; lower parts white. Adult with the 
upper part of the head deep-brown, with a central and two 
lateral lines of whitish ; a brown line from the bill to the eye, 
and another behind the eye; neck all round pale yellowish- 
