. Game birds. Life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . KILLDEER Order—; Famijy—:Genus—MciAiATis Species—VocirrR-\ National Association of Audubon Societies. RUFFED GROUSEOrder—Gallina: Family—^-Tetraon id je Genus—Bon ASA Species—Umbellus National Association of Audubon Societies Snipe, Sandpipers, etc. ^<j:«^*—North America at large, nesting from the northern states to the Arctic regions; wintering from the Gulf states to !ason—Chiefly a spring and autumn visitor; more abundant in autumn; rarely a summer resident;

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. Game birds. Life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . KILLDEER Order—; Famijy—:Genus—MciAiATis Species—VocirrR-\ National Association of Audubon Societies. RUFFED GROUSEOrder—Gallina: Family—^-Tetraon id je Genus—Bon ASA Species—Umbellus National Association of Audubon Societies Snipe, Sandpipers, etc. ^<j:«^*—North America at large, nesting from the northern states to the Arctic regions; wintering from the Gulf states to !ason—Chiefly a spring and autumn visitor; more abundant in autumn; rarely a summer resident; April, May; July to October. The haunts, habits, and noisy voices of the two species ofyellowlegs are so nearly identical, like their plumage, that adescription of them would be simply a repetition of the largerbirds biography. From the fact that some of these birds nestwithin the United States limits, they have been called summer yel-lowlegs ; but the great majority act precisely as their larger doubledoes, and so have earned only diminutives of its popular the Mississippi region the lesser telltale is far more commonthan in the east, but it is still abundant on the Atlantic coast inthe

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