. 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 . h tosouthern Brazil, passing through Mexico and Central Americaas well as the Antilles. In spring it arrives usually in northernFlorida earlier than it appears in southern Louisiana. Thisseems to indicate that the species comes nor
. 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 . h tosouthern Brazil, passing through Mexico and Central Americaas well as the Antilles. In spring it arrives usually in northernFlorida earlier than it appears in southern Louisiana. Thisseems to indicate that the species comes north by way of theAntilles and Florida, but as it is taken in Mexico and LowerCalifornia in migration, it may reach Louisiana from the west-ward, or cross the Gulf of Mexico from Yucatan or CentralAmerica. Eaton states the belief that this species comes tocentral and western New York by the Mississippi route, as itarrives there seven to ten days earlier than on the coast. The food of the Tip-up consists largely of insects and earth-worms. The bird apparently is harmless and very beneficial,and, except along the sea-shore, where it is shot with otherSandpipers for the table, it is killed mainly for sport. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 325 LONG-BILLED CURLEW (Numenius americanus).Common or local names: Sicklebill Curlew; Sicklebill; Old-hen Curlew; Hen
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