. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . g-cov^rts,paler than back, blackish brown in the center, variegated on rest of featherswith rufous and ashy white ; uppr^r tail-coverts, rufous, barred with blackishbrown, whitish near the ends of the feathers; tail, rufous, washed with ashand crossed with blackish-brown bars ; throat, buffy white; rest of underparts, buff; rufous on the fla
. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . g-cov^rts,paler than back, blackish brown in the center, variegated on rest of featherswith rufous and ashy white ; uppr^r tail-coverts, rufous, barred with blackishbrown, whitish near the ends of the feathers; tail, rufous, washed with ashand crossed with blackish-brown bars ; throat, buffy white; rest of underparts, buff; rufous on the flanks; the neck streaked,and flanks barred with 154 XORTII AMERICA.\ SHORE BIRDS. l)rownish black; bill, black, fleshy brown on basal half of mandible; legsand feet, grayish brown. Length, about 2 feet; wing, lo inches ; culmen,8, varying greatly ; tarsus on top, 2^4. Individuals vary greatly in the depth of the rufous coloring of their plum-age, some being quite pale and others dark cinnamon, and there isalso great diflerence in the length of the bills, some being moderate inthis respect, while occasionally an individual is met with having one enor-mously lengthened. Both color of plumage and length of bill are evidentlypurely individual 48. Iludsonian Curlew. HUDSONIAN CURLEW. UNLIKE its larger relative, the Long-billed Curlew,the present species migrates in the different sea-sons to the Arctic Sea on the north, and to the plainsof Patagonia on the south, traversing the entire lengthand breadth of the continents of North and vSouthAmerica. In some localites it is at times quite numer-ous, but I have never seen it as abundant as the Sickle-bill, and have regarded it, at least on our easternseaboard, as not a very common bird. It frequentsthe marshes and muddy flats, associating with theWillet and Godwit, and feeds on worms and variousshellfish. The Jack Curlew, as it is generally known, breeds inthe far north in the lands bordering the Arctic Sea, onthe Barren Groun
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