. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . s of the Atlantic, or prevent its rapidlyapproaching extinction. Nothing more than this can be doneby legal enactment; and it is probable that this never will bedone unless the protection of all migratory birds is put in thehands o
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . s of the Atlantic, or prevent its rapidlyapproaching extinction. Nothing more than this can be doneby legal enactment; and it is probable that this never will bedone unless the protection of all migratory birds is put in thehands of the federal government, where it should have beenplaced long ago. Anything that can be done with voice andpen to bring about that consummation will tend to securesufiicient protection for this and many other waders which aredoomed to extinction under the haphazard methods of legis-lation and law enforcement which now prevail in many says that the long bill of this bird is used in probinginto the holes of the small crabs, on which it feeds, and that ittakes worms and sea snails, such as are found in marshes;also berries and insects, and that it is very fond of bramble-berries, for which it searches the fields and uplands. 330 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. HUDSONIAN CURLEW (Numenius hudsonicus).Common or local names: Jack Curlew; Length. — About 17 inches, variable; bill about 4, twice length of head. Adult. — Top of head blackish, with a sharply defined central whitish stripe;line over eye whitish; line through eye blackish brown; rest of upperparts and tail brown, varied with blackish and grayish white; i7i7^erwebs of flight feathers or primaries barred mth bnffy; throat and bellywhite; neck and breast thickly streaked with dusky; iris dark brown;bill flesh colored toward base and black toward tip; legs grayish blue. Field Marks. — General tone of plumage more grayish and less reddish thanthat of the Sicklebilled Curlew; long curved bill so
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