. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . ba, and wintering from the Gulf States to the West Indies. 28. Hudsonian Curlew (265. Nuinhuushudsdnicus). —A large,common, nuuh-mottled, generally brownish, shore bird, withwhitish belly, and a long, sickle-like, downwardlycurved, slender is a smaller,but more commonbird than the last,and has similarhabits and fre-quents like places.(Jack Curlew.) Length, 16-18; Hudsonian Curlew wing, 91 (9-10^) ; tail, 3^; tarsus, 2|; culmen, 3-4. America; breeding in the Ar
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . ba, and wintering from the Gulf States to the West Indies. 28. Hudsonian Curlew (265. Nuinhuushudsdnicus). —A large,common, nuuh-mottled, generally brownish, shore bird, withwhitish belly, and a long, sickle-like, downwardlycurved, slender is a smaller,but more commonbird than the last,and has similarhabits and fre-quents like places.(Jack Curlew.) Length, 16-18; Hudsonian Curlew wing, 91 (9-10^) ; tail, 3^; tarsus, 2|; culmen, 3-4. America; breeding in the Arctic regions,and wintering mainly south of the United States. 29. Eskimo Curlew (266. Nt(7n^mus boreciUs). — A large,slender-billed, long-legged, much-mottled, brownish curlew,with a decidedly curved bill like the last two species. Theunder parts are buffy, with a darker and very streaky , the smallest of the curlews, is more abundant in theinterior, and frequents dry uplands and fields in preference tomuddy shores. It often appears in great flocks on the westernprairies. (Small Curlew; Dough-bird; Fute.). 250 KEY .4iYi) DESCRIPTION Length, 12-15 ; wing, 8^8|; tail, 3 ; tarsus. If ; culmen, North America; breeding in the Arctic regions, and wintering inSouth America. FAMILY XL. AVOCETS AND STILTS (RECURVIR6sTRID^) This is a small family (11 species) of extremely long-legged,long-necked, slender-billed, wading birds. Their bills are longas well as slender, and have more or less of an upward Avocets swim with great ease, and are tame birds, gener-ally found in flocks. Their food consists of water-insects, andcrustaceans, which they obtain mainly in shallow water, swing-ing the bill from side to side like a man mowing. The Stiltsare much like avocets, but have even longer legs, and are notso well fitted for swimming; so. tliough their food consists ofthe same kind of insects and crustaceans, they obtain nearl}-all of it by wading. Key to the S
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