. American game birds . l. HUDSONIAN CURLEWS {Numeniushudsonicus) or Jack Curlews, as gunnersusually call them,measure only about 17 in. inlength. Notice that the crown is solid brown-ish-black, with a narrow stripe through themiddle, this easily distinguishing them fromthe smaller Eskimo Curlews, which havethe crown streaked all over with buff. Thesebirds breed along the Arctic coast and mi-grate mainly along both Atlantic and Pacific coasts to their winter homes,which are from the Gulf coast to southern South America. If the weather isfavorable, they leave land at Labrador or Newfoundland an
. American game birds . l. HUDSONIAN CURLEWS {Numeniushudsonicus) or Jack Curlews, as gunnersusually call them,measure only about 17 in. inlength. Notice that the crown is solid brown-ish-black, with a narrow stripe through themiddle, this easily distinguishing them fromthe smaller Eskimo Curlews, which havethe crown streaked all over with buff. Thesebirds breed along the Arctic coast and mi-grate mainly along both Atlantic and Pacific coasts to their winter homes,which are from the Gulf coast to southern South America. If the weather isfavorable, they leave land at Labrador or Newfoundland and do not stopalong the coast of the United States. ESKIMO CURLEWS {Numenius borealis)are but 13 in. in length, have short, little curvedbills and differ otherwise from the precedingspecies as explained above. They bred inArctic regions, migrated in close flocks alongthe coast to southern South America and re-turned through the Mississippi Valley; theyare at present practically extinct. LONG-BILLED CURLEWHUDSONIAN CURLEW. LaWvmo 40 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER {Squat-arola squatarola). These handsome birds areknown to sportsmen chiefly as Beetleheadsor Bullheads. Nearly a foot in length andheavy-bodied, these plover are among themost highly prized of shore birds, not be-cause their flesh is of unusual merit, for it isnot, but because of their imposing size andthe fact that they are just wary enough tofurnish good sport. They will come to de-coys, but the gunner must be well concealed;and at the first shot they are off with a rush,never showing that helplessness that char-acterizes the curlew under similar condi-tions. They breed in the Arctic regionsand migrate along both coasts, but are quiterare in the interior except casually about theGreat Lakes. They winter from the Gulfcoast southward. Their flight is powerful,but has an appearance of heaviness becausethey progress in straight lines with almostcontinuous flapping instead of twisting, aswe are accustomed to see most shore birdsdo.
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