. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. ONTARIO above varied with black and speckled with whitish, below white, jugulum streaked, and breast, sides and crissum sjieckled or barred with blackish, these latter marks fewer or wanting in winter and in the young; upper tail coverts white with dark bars ; tail feathers marbled or barred with ashy or white ; quills blackish. Large ; length, over 12 ; wing, over 7 ; tail, 3 or more ; bill, 2 or more ; tarsus, abo
. The birds of Ontario [microform] : being a list of birds observed in the Province of Ontario, with an account of their habits, distribution, nests, eggs, & Birds; Oiseaux. ONTARIO above varied with black and speckled with whitish, below white, jugulum streaked, and breast, sides and crissum sjieckled or barred with blackish, these latter marks fewer or wanting in winter and in the young; upper tail coverts white with dark bars ; tail feathers marbled or barred with ashy or white ; quills blackish. Large ; length, over 12 ; wing, over 7 ; tail, 3 or more ; bill, 2 or more ; tarsus, about 2J ; middle toe and claw, 1} ; tibia bare, ij. Hab, America in general, breeding in the cold temperate and subarctic- portions of North America, and migrating south to Chili and Buenos Ayres. In spring even before the ice is quite gone from the lakes and rivers of Ontario, the shrill piercing cry of this bird may be heard overhead as it circles round in search of some quiet marshy inlet as a temporary resting place. At this season but a short stay is made, as it passes quicklj' on to its breeding place in the far north. As early as the end of August the birds again appear, toned down in dress and manners accompanied by their families, many falling the vic- tims of misplaced confidence by exposing themselves within reach of the ever-ready breech-loader which at this season of the year seems omnipresent in all the marshes. Like others of its class this species is an occasional visitor at the Beach near Hamilton, but the visits of all this class of birds at that point are now of less frequent occurrence and of shorter duration than in former 102. TOTANUS FLAVIPES (Gmel.). 255. Yellow-legs. A miniature of the last ; colors precisely the same ; legs comparatively longer ; bill grooved rather further. Length, under 12 ; wing, under 7 ; tail under 2 ; tarsus, about 2 ; middle toe and claw, and bare tibia, each ij. Hab. America in general, breeding in the cold temperate and
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