. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 422 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. whitish; rest of under parts, pale reddish brown, becoming very light on the belly; breast, narrowly striped with brown on the middle of the feathers; bill, very long; axillars, rufous Axillars and first primary of Long-billed Curlew. Adult in winter: General plumage, tawny brown; the back, blackish, mottled with buff; top of the head, dark brown; the feathers edged with tawny; throat, white; under parts, pale buff brown; feathers on the lower throat and upper breast, finely lin
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Birds; Birds. 422 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. whitish; rest of under parts, pale reddish brown, becoming very light on the belly; breast, narrowly striped with brown on the middle of the feathers; bill, very long; axillars, rufous Axillars and first primary of Long-billed Curlew. Adult in winter: General plumage, tawny brown; the back, blackish, mottled with buff; top of the head, dark brown; the feathers edged with tawny; throat, white; under parts, pale buff brown; feathers on the lower throat and upper breast, finely lined with dark brown; bill, very long and curved downward; bill, black, becoming dull lilac brown on basal half of the mandible; axillars, rufous brown. Length, 26; wing, ; tarsus, ; bill, very variable, meas- uring from to 9. The immature of this species has the bill nearly straight, but quite short, sometimes not exceeding two inches in length. The Long-billed Curlew was once a common migrant in Illinois and Wisconsin, but is now rather rare. Mr. Nelson states that a pair nested on the Calumet Marshes, near Chicago, in 1873. It arrives about the last of April and leaves for the south early in October. According to Kumlien and Hollister, it was once very abundant in Wisconsin and bred in numbers. They say: "As an illustration of the former numbers of the curlew, Mr. Skavlem tells of his boyhood experiences in the early fifties when he was set to following the plows when breaking up the virgin prairie sod and gathering up the eggs for the ; (Birds of Wisconsin, i9°3. P- 52-) The eggs of the Long-billed Curlew are three or four in number, grayish green or pale olive buff, blotched and marked with chocolate brown, and measure about x Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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