. Birds of Michigan . oung are beautiful little things, and run about, soon after hatching, in a very sprightlymanner (L. S. Foster]. Genus NUMENIUS Long-billed Curlew. 122-264-(643). Nnmenius longirostris Wils. Long-billed Curlew; Sickle-billed ; migrant; rare near Lake Erie (Jerome Trombley); admitted doubtfullyamong Michigan migrants by J. B. Steere; breeds in the Upper Peninsula (HNehrling); valuable table bird. 123-265-(645). Numenius liudsonicns Lath. Hudsonian Curlew; Jack Curlew;Short billed rare; only two taken to my knowledge (Gibbs Birds of Michigan);

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. Birds of Michigan . oung are beautiful little things, and run about, soon after hatching, in a very sprightlymanner (L. S. Foster]. Genus NUMENIUS Long-billed Curlew. 122-264-(643). Nnmenius longirostris Wils. Long-billed Curlew; Sickle-billed ; migrant; rare near Lake Erie (Jerome Trombley); admitted doubtfullyamong Michigan migrants by J. B. Steere; breeds in the Upper Peninsula (HNehrling); valuable table bird. 123-265-(645). Numenius liudsonicns Lath. Hudsonian Curlew; Jack Curlew;Short billed rare; only two taken to my knowledge (Gibbs Birds of Michigan); neverseen in Monroe Co. (Jerome Trombley); admitted doubtfully, by Dr. J. B. Steereamong Michigan migrants. 54 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 124-266-(046). Numenius borealis (Forst). Eskimo Curlew. Exceedingly rare; one specimen reported by Dr. M. Gibbs; admitted doubtfully byDr. J. B. Steere; Benj. Syke, of Kalamazoo, records one as late as Oct. 28; migrant;gregarious; about marshes; excellent for table. Family CHARADRIID^E. Plovers. Feed on insects, crustaceans, molluscs, etc.; eggs usually dark and spotted;. somespecies valuable as game birds.

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