All these photographs were taken by Martin Reid with the kind permission of the British Museum of Natural History, Tring - where eight Texas specimens of Eskimo Curlew are housed.

These four Eskimo Curlews were all collected in late March, 1889 near Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas.

a tray of Eskimo Curlews:

a specimen with the wing held slightly open, revealing an unbarred primary and cinnamon-washed underwing coverts/axillaries:

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