. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . e XII. Known by the strongly decurved bill, which, however, is only from threeto four inches in length, together with the buffy and brown striped andspotted plumage which is similar in all the curlews. Distribution.—All of North and South America, including the WestIndies; breeds in the high north, and winters chiefly south of the UnitedStates. This is th
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . e XII. Known by the strongly decurved bill, which, however, is only from threeto four inches in length, together with the buffy and brown striped andspotted plumage which is similar in all the curlews. Distribution.—All of North and South America, including the WestIndies; breeds in the high north, and winters chiefly south of the UnitedStates. This is the least rare of our curlews, yet it is by no means a commonbird at present. W^hen it occurs at all it is likely to be found in flocks ofconsiderable size, but it also associates freely with the Golden and Black-bellied plovers, and a single curlew is not infrequently seen in a large flockof plover. B. H. Swales says One record. On May 25, 1902, I met witha flock of fully 200 birds at St. Clair Flats. My companion, C. H. AHce,secured one male, which is mounted and in his possession. This flock wascommented on by several of the resident gunners as the only curlews theyhad ever seen (MS. List, Birds of S. E. Michigan, 1904). There is a. Plate XII. Hudsoniaii drawing by P. A. Taverner. (Original.) WATER BIRDS. 207 diountecl specimen in the collection of the Michigan Agricultural College,obtained from Mr. Peter Lepp, Saginaw, Mich., which he says was takenin the fall of 1896, just outside Saginaw City. It was leading a flock ofGolden Plover and the only bird of the kind in the flock. We have asecond specimen taken by Albert Hirzel, at Forestville, Sanilac county,April 23, 1906. There is also a mounted specimen (No. 20261) in theKent Scientific Museum, Grand Rapids, marked as local, but without otherdata. In Indiana, according to Butler, it is much rarer than the Long-billedCurlew. In Wisconsin, according to Kumlien and Hollister, it hascertainly been decidedly rare dur
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