. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . ntic coast, particularlyon Cape Cod, than in the interior. In the west the Blackbreast is partial to ploughed fields,where it feeds on earthworms, grubs, cutworms and Samuel Aughey had two of these birds sent him from
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . ntic coast, particularlyon Cape Cod, than in the interior. In the west the Blackbreast is partial to ploughed fields,where it feeds on earthworms, grubs, cutworms and Samuel Aughey had two of these birds sent him fromSarpy County, Neb., and found their stomachs crammed withthe destructive Rocky mountain locust and very few otherinsects. Mackay in his excellent paper on this bird says thatin the Massachusetts marshes it feeds on the larvae of a cutworm,and that it eats the large, whitish, maritime grasshopper{(Edipoda maritima), also marine insects and very small shell-fish, which constitute a very large part of their food duringtheir flight along the coast of Massachusetts.^ 1 Mackay, George H.: Auk, 1S92, p. 146. 340 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. GOLDEN PLOVER (Charadrius dominicus dominicus). Common or local names: Green Plover; Green-head; Green-back; Toad-head; FieldBird; Pasture Bird; Brass-back; Pale-breast; Pale-belly; Muddy-breast; FrostBird; Three Adult (Spring). Young (Fall). Length. — About inches. Adult in Breeding Plumage. — (Almost never seen in Massachusetts.) Gen-erally black above, spangled with bright yellow and white; tail darkgrayish brown, barred with white, tinged with yellow; linings of wingsashy; a wide white stripe from forehead passes over eyes down side ofhead and neck, broadening on the side of breast; black below from chinto tail. Adult in Late Summer and Fall. — As seen here, upper parts as in spring, butduller, little white, and the yellow is golden or greenish; below white,mottled with grayish brown; linings of the wings grayish as
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