. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. 610 GLEANINGS. the northwest; but it is rare to the eastward. The 3 or 4 eggs, in a slight depression in the ground, some , and pointed, are olivaceous-drab, thickly but not very coarsely marked with dark brown. The Stilt {Himantopus nigricollis), some long, glossy black, forehead, sides of the head and neck, rump and und«r parts, white, is more or less common to the United St. tes in summer, but is not often found north of the Caro- linas on the eastern coast. The
. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. 610 GLEANINGS. the northwest; but it is rare to the eastward. The 3 or 4 eggs, in a slight depression in the ground, some , and pointed, are olivaceous-drab, thickly but not very coarsely marked with dark brown. The Stilt {Himantopus nigricollis), some long, glossy black, forehead, sides of the head and neck, rump and und«r parts, white, is more or less common to the United St. tes in summer, but is not often found north of the Caro- linas on the eastern coast. The nidification is similar to that of the former; and the 3 or 4 eggs, some X , are very nearly the same in coloration. The Phalaropes, three in number, and of small size, are a sort of membranous or lobe-footed Sandpiper. Wilson's Phalarope {Phalaropus wilsoni)^ some 9 inches long, light- gray above, wings brown, the dark stripe through the eye becoming purplish-chestnut on the sides of the neck, upper. TUB HEAD OF WILSON's AND THE FOOT OF THE NORTHERN tail-coverts and under parts, white, is distributed in summer from Kansas to the Saskatchawan, but is simply a rare mi- grant in the east. It has been taken in Western New York in the fall. It has the membrane on the toe straight-edged. The northern Phalarope {P. hyperboreas) is about long;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Langille, J. H. (James Hibbert), 1841-1923. Boston : S. E. Cassino
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