. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . (; middle toe, ^, and claw, 1 inch. Adult in Winter.—Top of head, back, and sides of neck, loral streakand auriculars, gray; back, ash gray; wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail,as in summer; superciliary stripe and under parts, white, streaked withgray on neck, breast, and lower tail-coverts. Young.—Top of head, brownish, streaked with buff;
. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . (; middle toe, ^, and claw, 1 inch. Adult in Winter.—Top of head, back, and sides of neck, loral streakand auriculars, gray; back, ash gray; wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail,as in summer; superciliary stripe and under parts, white, streaked withgray on neck, breast, and lower tail-coverts. Young.—Top of head, brownish, streaked with buff; hind-neck, ashgray; back and scapulars, black, feathers margined with white, exceptthose of the mantle, which are bordered with reddish; wing-coverts, mar-gined with pale buff; upper tail-coverts, nearly pure white; lores, brown;throat and sides of head, white, faintly streaked with dusky; breast, gray-ish white, streaked with buff and dusky; rest of lower parts, pure THE KNOT. LARGEST of all the Sandpipers, the Knot is found-* throughout the world, going in winter from itsfar northern breeding place to New Zealand, Africa,and Brazil. In the United States it is known bymany names besides the one at the head of this article,a few of which are : Red Sandpiper, Ash-colored Sand-piper, Freckled and Grisled Sandpiper, Gray Back,May Bird, Robin Snipe, White Robin Snipe, White-bellied Snipe, Silver-back, Red-breast Plover, Buff-breast Blue Plover, Beach Robin, Robin-breast, andHorse-foot Snipe. In the spring, on its way north, andagain in the autumn, the Robin Snipe visits the Atlan-tic Coast of America in great numbers, associating inflocks and remaining only a comparatively brief periodin any one locality. On the seashore it follows themovements of the waves upon the beach, exhibitinggreat quickness in eluding the incoming surf, and alsoin following the retiring waters, rapidly picking up theaquatic insects and small bivalves left upon the
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