. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . ngs, fading to whitish on the throat; the jugulumand fore breast with dusky streaks which tend to become bars orarrow-heads on the sides. No white on rump, wings, or tail. Billblack, much of under mandible pale flesh-color or yellowish ;feet dark. This great Curlew, the largest of the whole familyScolopacidcz, is rated by Dr. Brewer as a rare midsum-mer visitor along the coast(Pr. Bost. Soc., xvii, 1875,p. 446). As Mr. Purdie hasshown, however (Bull. , i, 1876, p. 73;ii, 1877,p. 17) it is rather to beplaced ill the
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . ngs, fading to whitish on the throat; the jugulumand fore breast with dusky streaks which tend to become bars orarrow-heads on the sides. No white on rump, wings, or tail. Billblack, much of under mandible pale flesh-color or yellowish ;feet dark. This great Curlew, the largest of the whole familyScolopacidcz, is rated by Dr. Brewer as a rare midsum-mer visitor along the coast(Pr. Bost. Soc., xvii, 1875,p. 446). As Mr. Purdie hasshown, however (Bull. , i, 1876, p. 73;ii, 1877,p. 17) it is rather to beplaced ill the category ofthe spring and autumn mi-grants, as given by Allen,Merriam, and Boardman,though a few individuals undoubtedly spend the summeron the more unfrequented portions of the coast and in theadjoining marshes. Unlike others of its genus, it is nota bird of the high north. It is generally seen in smallflocks, and found to be extremely wary and difficultto approach. It is not one of our common birds, norat all regular in its times of appearance and Fig. ■Head of Long-billedCurlew. 250 SCOLOPACIDiE : SNIPE, ETC. The eggs of the Long-billed Curlew are not oftenso pyriform as those of the smaller waders, being in shapenot unlike a hens eggs. Different specimens measure X ; X ; X ; X ; They are clay-colored, with more or lessolivaceous in some instances, and in others a decidedlybuffy shade. The spotting is generally pretty uniformlydistributed and of small pattern, though in many casesthere is larger blotching and even massing about thegreat end. The color of the markings is sepia or umber,of different shades in the buffy-tinged specimens, rathertending to chocolate. The shell-markings are commonlynumerous and evident. HUDSONIAN CURLEW; AMERICANWHLMBREL. NUMENIUS HUDSONICUS LatJi. Chars. With a general resemblance to the foregoing, this speciesis readily distinguished by smaller size, shorter and less curve
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