. . 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 securesuflficient protection for this and many other waders which aredoomed to extinction under the haphazard methods of legis-lation and law enforc
. . 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 securesuflficient 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 (Xumenius 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; innerwehs of flight feathers or primaries barred ivith 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 sometimes longer thanthat of the young SicJdebill; a light central crown stripe, bordered byblackish stripes, distinguishes it from the other American species, butthis can l)e seen only at close range. Notes. — Call note jnp-pijy-jnp-pij^; in spring a sweet Kur-leir (Hoffmann). Season. — Usually a rare
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