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Catalogue of British Columbia Birds by Francis Kermode
page 40 of 124 (32%)
Clayoquot Vancouver Island, and at Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands,
July 26th, 1895. Brooks has taken it at Chilliwhack and Okanagan.

NUMENIUS Brisson.

122. LONG-BILLED CURLEW.

_Numenius longirostris_ (Wils.).

A few specimens have been taken on the coast, but is to be more
frequently met with in the interior of the Mainland, south through the
Okanagan.

123. HUDSONIAN CURLEW.

_Numenius hudsonicus_ (Lath.).

Not common, but distributed along the coast of Island and Mainland. I
have taken it at Clayoquot in May, 1894. W. B. Andersen has taken it
at Port Simpson, and J. Maynard at Cadboro Bay, near Victoria.


Family CHARADRIIDAE. Plovers, Etc.

CHARADRIUS Linnaeus.

124. BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER.

_Charadrius squatarola_ (Linn.).

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