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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON. ANNUAL REPORT of the BOARD OF REGENTS for the year ending June 30, 1915. . . .
In Newfoundland and on the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, for many years after the middle of the nineteenth century, the Eskimo curlews arrived in August and September in millions that darkened the sky. . . . In a day’s shooting by 25 or 30 men as many as 2,000 curlews would be killed for the Hudson Bay Co.′s store at Cartwright, Labrador.
Fishermen made a practice of salting down these birds in barrels. At night when the birds were roosting in large masses on the high beach a man armed with a lantern to dazzle and confuse the birds could approach them in the darkness and kill them in enormous numbers by striking them down with a stick. . . .