. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER XTX. LONG-BILLED CURLEW, OR SICKLE-BILL. NUMENIUS LONGIROSTRIS. HABITS AND DESCRIPTION. HIS variety of curlew is larger than thepreceding species, but not, perhaps, asnumerous; it is a beautiful and noble-looking bird. The habits of the sickle-bills are very similar to those of theshort-billed; they frequent the saltmarshes and sea-shore about the sametime as the other bird, and we are sur-prised to learn from Mr. Girauds work that numbers of them re-main
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER XTX. LONG-BILLED CURLEW, OR SICKLE-BILL. NUMENIUS LONGIROSTRIS. HABITS AND DESCRIPTION. HIS variety of curlew is larger than thepreceding species, but not, perhaps, asnumerous; it is a beautiful and noble-looking bird. The habits of the sickle-bills are very similar to those of theshort-billed; they frequent the saltmarshes and sea-shore about the sametime as the other bird, and we are sur-prised to learn from Mr. Girauds work that numbers of them re-main on Folly Island, near Charleston, during the season of nidifi-cation, for the purposes of procreation. The long-billed curlew is twenty-five inches in length and three feet three inches in extent, and when in good order weighs 291
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