. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . out () ; average of fiveColumbus specimens: wing. (); tail, 2M (): bill. (.);tarsus, (). Recognition Marks.—Killdeer size; like preceding species but smaller. Eggs, 3-4, bufify (variable as to shade), distinctly (sometimes broadly)spotted or blotched with dark madder or Vandyke brown and purplish size, () (Ridgw.). Range.—.America in general, breeding in the cold temperate and subarctic
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . out () ; average of fiveColumbus specimens: wing. (); tail, 2M (): bill. (.);tarsus, (). Recognition Marks.—Killdeer size; like preceding species but smaller. Eggs, 3-4, bufify (variable as to shade), distinctly (sometimes broadly)spotted or blotched with dark madder or Vandyke brown and purplish size, () (Ridgw.). Range.—.America in general, breeding in the cold temperate and subarcticdistricts, and migrating south in winter to southern South America. Less com-mon in western than in eastern North America. This smaller representative of the genus Totanus is even more generally dis-tributed, if possible, than its larger brother, T. melaiioleitcits. During the springmigrations it spreads over the state and rests wherever there is flooded not solitary by preference, the birds are rather independent, and T haveseen single individuals, or twos and threes, quite as often as larger flocks. These 538. ^i
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