. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . t similar but darker on mantle;primaries, bluish-gray and in all stages of plumage broadlytipped with white; beneath deeply tinted with rose-pink;other stages of plumage corresponding to 1. Breeds fromnorthern Iowa, north through Minn, and the interior of thecountry; migrates southward in late Sept. through Oct., intoearly Nov.; winters in northern S. A.; goes north in April. , Common; known to the farmers of the west as the PrairieDove, and feeds largely upon the land, often far from water,subsisting principally upon insects. 3. BONAPARTE
. Directory to the birds of Eastern North America .. . t similar but darker on mantle;primaries, bluish-gray and in all stages of plumage broadlytipped with white; beneath deeply tinted with rose-pink;other stages of plumage corresponding to 1. Breeds fromnorthern Iowa, north through Minn, and the interior of thecountry; migrates southward in late Sept. through Oct., intoearly Nov.; winters in northern S. A.; goes north in April. , Common; known to the farmers of the west as the PrairieDove, and feeds largely upon the land, often far from water,subsisting principally upon insects. 3. BONAPARTES GULL, C. Philadelphia. Smallestof our Gulls, ; mantle, pale bluish; outer wing feathers,white; inner, pale bluish; outer portion of three outer pri-maries and tips of all the wing feathers, black; bill black,orange at base; feet, bright orange, fig. 55, upper adult; head, white tinged with gray and with a darkspot on either side of the back part. Young; upper wing cov-erts, brownish ; tail, rather narrowly tipped with black, DIKECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 47 55, lower figure. Whole of the U. S. and northward, breed-ing in the Arctic regions; migrates southward in Aug., Sep,and Oct. along the coastsand waters of the interi-or ; winters, in our sec-tion, from the Carolinassouth to the Gulf of Mex-ico ; goes north in March, ^^_^April and May. Flight, r^pr=^^easy, graceful and tern-^^^a^^^like ; when migrating, ~^^often flies along shore ^^ ^^Sclose to land, usually in JP, B, d, 3. 1- small companies, sometimes whirling with a sweeping flightmuch like sandpipers; in the south in winter occurs scatter-ingly, flying over sounds or creeks, or often far up fresh wa-ter rivers. The cry, seldom heard in migration, is harsh andrasping. Common. 4. LITTLE GULL, C. minutus. Differs from 2 in be-ing smaller, () and in having little or no black on thewings; in the young the tail is without a black tip. Europeand parts of Asia and Africa; accidental
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