. 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 . ;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 yo
. 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 . ;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 Siclclebill; a light central crown stripe, bordered byblackish stripes, distinguishes it from the other American species, butthis can be seen only at close range. Notes. — Call note pip-pip-pip-pip; in spring a sweet Kur-lew (Hoffmann). Season. — Usually a rare migrant, but irregularly and locally commoncoastwise; early July to late September. Range. — North and South America. Breeds on coast of Alaska frommouth of Yukon to Kotzebuc Sound, and on coast of northern Macken-zie; winters from Lower California to southern Honduras, from Ecuadorto southern Chile, and from British Guiana to mouth of Amazon; migratesmainly along Pacific and Atlantic coasts; rare in the interior; casual onPribilof Islands and in Greenland and Bermuda; accidental in BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 331 this species, which is practically the only Curlew nowleft to us, we have a peculiar instance of the survival of thefittest. While probably decreasing in numbers, apparently it isholding its own in many localities, and even increasing inrecent years. This increase may be more apparent than real,for as time goes on, and birds become fewer, our standardschange, and the Hud-sonian Curlew, whichonce was regarded asuncommon for a Cur-lew when compared atthat time with theabundance of the other 1 1 V>° A Fia. 18. — First primary and axillars of Hudsonian Curlew large SllOre Di
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