HUDSONIAN CURLEW
265. Numenius hudsonicus. 17 in.
Darker brown above, than the Sickle-bill; crown broadly striped with blackish and buff; underparts grayish, streaked on the breast and barred on the sides with blackish. This and the succeeding species are summer inhabitants of the Arctic regions, being found within our borders only for a short time in the Fall and Spring. It is found in fresh and salt water marshes, as well as on mud-flats and on sandy beaches of the seashore. They are very unsuspicious and are easily stalked, or decoy very easily, coming to wooden caricatures of themselves stuck up in the mud, or to crude imitations of their whistles; consequently large numbers of them are shot and they are becoming scarce.
Notes.—Similar to that of the last.
Nest.—Hollows in the ground, lined with grasses and weeds; eggs buffy, blotched with brownish-black (2.25 × 1.60).
Range.—Breeds in the Arctic regions. Winters south of the United States, migrating both on the coast and in the interior.
ESKIMO CURLEW
266. Numenius borealis. 13.5 in.