. 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 . per part of breast, jet black; back and scap-ulars, black, center of mantle and scapulars, blotched with rufous; lesserwing-coverts, rufous; greater coverts, black, margined broadly with white,forming a conspicuous bar across the wing; primaries, dark brown, tippedwith white, and with white shafts; lower part of back and rump, white;middle u
. 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 . per part of breast, jet black; back and scap-ulars, black, center of mantle and scapulars, blotched with rufous; lesserwing-coverts, rufous; greater coverts, black, margined broadly with white,forming a conspicuous bar across the wing; primaries, dark brown, tippedwith white, and with white shafts; lower part of back and rump, white;middle upper tail-coverts, black, margined with rufous, lower ones white;tail, white, with broad subterminal black band and tipped with white;under parts below, black; breast, pure white; bill, black; feet and legs,orange red. Length, 9 inches; wing, 6; culmen, ^; tarsus, I; middletoe, ^. Winter Plumage.—Resembles the summer dress, but has less rufous,and the black feathers on head, neck, and breast have white margins. Youm;.—Upper parts, dark brown, mottled with black and pale brown,and some rufous on scapulars; top and sides of head, pale brown, streakednarrowly with black; breast, mottled with black and pale brown; throatand under parts, pure (h). Black Ttnnstone. BLACK TURNSTONE. T^HE Black Turnstone is only found in North Amer-^ ica on the Pacific Coast, and in some localities isquite numerous. In its habits it resembles the better-known species that roams around the world, but, unlikeits relative, is not possessed of the roving spirit thatcarries that bird into nearly every known land. It ismost abundant in the northern part of its range, visit-ing Southern California in restricted numbers, at timesin the company of the common Turnstone. It is plen-tiful on the coast of Behring Sea and on the shores ofAlaska, near Point Barrow, as well as on variousislands. It visits the wet flats and the shores of brack-ish ponds, also marshy places, and in all such localitiesit bree
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