. Names and portraits of birds which interest gunners, with descriptions in languages understanded of the people;. Game and game-birds; Birds. No. 55.] BIRD NAMES. 189 Adult, and young, in fall and winter. Not now " black- bellied," but a " gray" plover; without the positive contrasts just described; clothed instead with Quaker-like simplicity. Upper parts with neck and portions of breast finely streaked and speckled with grayish brown and white; the upper parts some- times washed here and there with faint yellow. Eemaining under parts white. Bill and legs less black, or gr
. Names and portraits of birds which interest gunners, with descriptions in languages understanded of the people;. Game and game-birds; Birds. No. 55.] BIRD NAMES. 189 Adult, and young, in fall and winter. Not now " black- bellied," but a " gray" plover; without the positive contrasts just described; clothed instead with Quaker-like simplicity. Upper parts with neck and portions of breast finely streaked and speckled with grayish brown and white; the upper parts some- times washed here and there with faint yellow. Eemaining under parts white. Bill and legs less black, or grayish in No. 65. Fall or Winter Plumage. Measurements about as follows: length eleven and a quarter to twelve inches; extent twenty-three and a half inches; bill one and a quarter inches. It should be borne in mind, in this connection and others, that a bird does not change its dress as a snake does its skin, but that while passing from one plumage to another (as in the case of this bird's belly from black to white, and vice versa) vari- ous combinations are produced. " Nearly cosmopolitan, but chiefly in the Northern Hemi- sphere, breeding far north, and migrating south in winter; in America to the West Indies, Brazil, and New Granada" (A. 0. U. Check List).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Trumbull, Gurdon, 1841-1903. New York, Harper
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