. Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . seless, tries the old feint of a brokenwing, while the others watch her with anxious cries. BIRDS FOUND ALONG THE BEACHES 75 The young bird has a well-developed but straight billmore than an inch long when hatched; he runs about onstrong legs withiu an hour of his emancipation from theshell. 265. HUDSONIAN CURLEW, OR JACK CURLEW- Numenius hudsonicus. Family : The Snipes and Sandpipers. L
. Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies . seless, tries the old feint of a brokenwing, while the others watch her with anxious cries. BIRDS FOUND ALONG THE BEACHES 75 The young bird has a well-developed but straight billmore than an inch long when hatched; he runs about onstrong legs withiu an hour of his emancipation from theshell. 265. HUDSONIAN CURLEW, OR JACK CURLEW- Numenius hudsonicus. Family : The Snipes and Sandpipers. Length: Adults: Upper parts mottled and barred with palecinnamon-brown and blackish; line through thecrbwn buffy, bordered with two brown stripes; underparts buff, narrowly streaked with Young: Buffy brown above, merging to lemon-yellow below; upper parts indistinctly mottled with Distribution: Nearly the whole of North andSouth America; south in Range : Arctic Season: June 15 to July : A slight hollow, scantily lined with grasses.^^ Eggs: 4 ; pear-shaped, grayish yellow, coarsely scrawled ^—-- 265. When alighting. of Alaska. The Hudsonian Curlew occursthroughout North America, breed-ing at the ponds and lakes of thearctic regions and in all partsIn California it is abundant asa spring and fall migrant, and is foundon the coast in company with the long-billed curlew and the jack-snipe. Likethe others, it is a conspicuous bird on the beach orflying in triangular flocks over the edge of the water;like the long-billed curlew, it drops its feet and raises 76 WATER BIRDS its wings in a peculiar butterfly fashion when is not so commonly found in the interior as othermembers of its family, and probes in the sand of thebeach for its food rather than in the salt meadows ; itsfavorite food is small snails, water-spiders, and crayfish. 270 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. — Squata
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