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Transcription
Numenius hudsonicus.
1888, September 18. Head of Lake, Lake Umbagog.
To outlet at 8 A.M. Skillings, King and Hill were a-head of us but they passed a Curlew (N.hudsonicus) which stood on a mud flat. I fired both barrels at it and after flying 100 yds. it dropped dead on the further shore.