Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

HUDSONIAN CURLEW.

265. Numenius hudsonicus. 17 inches.

This is more grayish than the above; primaries black; a white stripe along the top of the head; is fairly common, winters in California. Three or four eggs, same color as above, only smaller (2.25 × 1.60).