. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . Long-billed Curlew. Eskimo Curlew. Hudsonian Curlew. 131. Numenius americanus Curlew. Numenius longirostris Wils., A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 97. Local name: Sickle-bill. Distr.: Temperate North America, migrating south as far as Ja-maica and Guatemala, in winter; breeds in the south Atlantic statesand in the interior throughout most of its North American range. Adult in Slimmer: Upper parts, marked with buff and black;tail feathers, alternately banded with tawny buff and brown; throat, 422 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoolo
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . Long-billed Curlew. Eskimo Curlew. Hudsonian Curlew. 131. Numenius americanus Curlew. Numenius longirostris Wils., A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 97. Local name: Sickle-bill. Distr.: Temperate North America, migrating south as far as Ja-maica and Guatemala, in winter; breeds in the south Atlantic statesand in the interior throughout most of its North American range. Adult in Slimmer: Upper parts, marked with buff and black;tail feathers, alternately banded with tawny buff and brown; throat, 422 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. whitish; rest of under parts, pale reddish brown, becoming very Ughton the belly; breast, narrowly striped with brown on the middle of thefeathers; bill, very long; axillars, rufous Axillars and first primary of Long-billed Curlew. Adult in winter: General plumage, tawny brown; the back,blackish, mottled with buff; top of the head, dark brown; the feathersedged with tawny; throat, white; under parts, pale buff brown;feathers on the lower throat and upper breast, finely lined with darkbrown; bill, very long and curved downward; bill, black, becomingdull lilac brown on basal half of the mandible; axillars, rufous brown. Length, 26; wing, ; tarsus, ; bill, very variable, meas-uring from to 9. The immature of this species has the bill nearly straight, but quiteshort, sometimes not exceeding two inches in length. The Long-billed Curlew was once a common migrant in Illinoisand Wisconsin, but is now rather rare. Mr. Nelson states that a pair nested on the Calumet Marshes,near Chicago, in 1873. It arrives about the last of April and leavesfor the south early in October. According to Kumlien and Hollister,it was once very abundant in Wisconsin and bred in num
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