LIMIOOLÆfc SCOLOPA C1DÆ.
■ Nijmenius ,(|L| R. Forster f
"ESKIMO CURLEW.
Numeniuk' bor'ealis. -
A communication to the Linneam^oeietwiQf London in
November, 1855, announced the first recorded occurrence of
•tlds Amerijgga Curlew in Britain.. This'hh?d~ was killed ojp
the 6th September, l ^ ^ . i n the parish of Burris, Kincardineshire,
at the- top of a Ip^qu. dfierpuir, belongdjigffo/Burris,
called Car-monearn, one"’ of the Grampian range, some
twp|4e hundred feet a&^g|Sea-lejel,_,hy Mr. W,.3|..;Cps,sa|k
Smith. vThe, bird was s4ent to be preserved by Mr. Mitchell,
Aberdeen, and was examined a few days ^after by. Mr. J.
Longmuir, jun., who ascertained it ■ to Jb^jbhetjEskimo Curlew.
(Numenius ibormlis)'p ^nluchrly^Q was not measured
when in the flesh, and the sex was not,, observedbut it
appeared to be a female, uni almost complete winter livery,.
* Scolopax borealis, J. R. Forster,’Phil. Trans, feeif. *pp. f i t , 431^(1772).
Wilson’s Scolopax borealis is the American Whimbrel (N. hudsonicus).
Mr. N. F.Hele, in his ‘"Mîtes about Aldeburgh ’ (p. 177)1
pifWhshed in 1870, states that “ an- ëxampfé' óf- the” species
was filled soimfe ÿears"sïMeTf;hfi thwrivQ^ldeVin Suffolk]*;
by Captain Ferrand, but was, unfortunately; h6t; preserved?
Ghe in the possession of Mr. Hilling, of Woödb%itlgé3' in very
similar dress, ^as- obtained infMe^iver fnfïhât neighbour-
b°°d.” : Th'es'ë'î^o "are' 'the only occurrehcbs' recorded in
Ehgland.
In^H’elandfpn’e7(B£ot in was purchased in the flesh
ft^ u b lin market’on the 21st Bctöbër-1870 (Zool. Ss. p.
2¥G8jy and became the property oUSpf Yîétbr Brooké; Bârt.,
who Exhibited' it at aHneeting blTfhe,,Z6ological“ Society
(P.'Z:S.f¥871,f:^0OlJ "
'^Oü thd29th;of ;Sep%*&ber, 1879, another example of this
fate Ifc-rlggiér-Waâ shot in Aberdëbhshire,'by Mr. Ramsay,
of^Sîâines, and exhibited^'Mr. J. A. Harviè-Br'own, at the
fretin g 6f the Katuraf HiSto^ 5^(fie% of Glasgow (ft tHe‘
26th óf Mêvember. Mr.'G.'^plfüf' of Aberdeen; H^hwhom the
BïfS was sent" fot ^rësëfvaffioh, stated' that the bird was a
iMi-lè,‘wêfghih% eight öhhe|s; and that its' stomach contained
crow berries, some fliesf and a caterpillar (Zooh lSfOf'p.
185) .r- GnH$é’’2Fsï*Sep^Sber, T880', an adult malb'-hhót' in
tue:Foresf- o’f Birse, Kincardineëhi^Ju as-'s,ëh| to the same
^ i^ fm tist;^ n d uf|^stbmach was'found to contain Crów-
BfrfMs fZohlr I&80, pp. 485 and 5lBfT *
?*Fr om 'Ei (-h a r d so n ^ Au dhB bp; Br. E llio t Coues and others)5
rôeFl'éàrrb that' ine Eskimô'sCurîf¥5is fouhd fn: slimmer in
tnl^bBhiA within !fhe Arctiff'eir^ e) ' The
fêrmer discbtéred^a nest wfth 'tlvfêe ' eggs, near ‘Point Lake
oh^theilifh'dhne,■lf|22, and thé lalerMrTMa-c^arl^m/when
cMècting mr the Smithsonian Institution, found the bird
Sêëdfng i n 'cph£derablé numbers to thé eaSÇcîf fjîéT‘Viidersön
Bîyef; Mr. E. W. Nélson slatoT^Cniisc of theT‘ Corwin,’
pV90) that it oëcûrs iti’summor abundantly at Norton fSonnd,
and sparingly1 at thu^htouth bf ''the Yukon; f r% ^ n tS | the'
whole'of the lo w-lylFg1 uoast of Alaska' on migrafibn/'and
vfêiflug ifhê 7|>ribilov-!liplahdtS7%n?;fh,u^rorth Siberian coast*
fèuf^pëcimhhS ’óf this—tfm only IpecfefPof Curlew seen—^
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