. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. NUMENIUS LONGIROSTRIS : LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 249 in length, usually or Length, or more ; extent about ; wing, ; tail, ; tarsus, Prevailing tone of plumage rufous, usually deepest under the wings, where little varied with other color; primaries dark, varied with rufous. Top of head variegated with rufous or whitish and blackish, without distinct pale median and lateral lines. Upper parts brownish-black, speckled with ta
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. NUMENIUS LONGIROSTRIS : LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 249 in length, usually or Length, or more ; extent about ; wing, ; tail, ; tarsus, Prevailing tone of plumage rufous, usually deepest under the wings, where little varied with other color; primaries dark, varied with rufous. Top of head variegated with rufous or whitish and blackish, without distinct pale median and lateral lines. Upper parts brownish-black, speckled with tawny or cinnamon-brown ; tail-feathers and secondaries cinnamon-brown, with pretty regular dark bars throughout. Under parts rufous or cinnamon of varying intensity, usually deepening to chestnut under the wings, fading to whitish on the throat; the jugulum and fore breast with dusky streaks which tend to become bars or arrow-heads on the sides. No white on rump, wings, or tail. Bill black, much of under mandible pale flesh-color or yellowish ; feet dark. This great Curlew, the largest of the whole family ScolopacidcB, is rated by Dr. Brewer as a rare midsum- mer visitor along the coast (Pr. Bost. Soc., xvii, 1875, p. 446). As Mr. Purdie has shown, however (Bull. Nutt. Club, i, 1876, p. 73 ; ii, 1877, p. 17) it is rather to be placed in the category of the spring and autumn mi- grants, as given by Allen, '^^'^- ss.—head of long-billed Merriam, and Boardman, though a few individuals undoubtedly spend the summer on the more unfrequented portions of the coast and in the adjoining marshes. Unlike others of its genus, it is not a bird of the high north. It is generally .seen in small flocks, and found to be extremely wary and difficult to approach. It is not one of our common birds, nor at all regular in its times of appearance and disappear- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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