. 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 . traight, is very hard, andtapers from about the middle to a sharp point. The legs arerather short and stout, and the toes are not webbed butnarrowly margined. Turnstones are distributed generally overthe globe. The few species are k
. 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 . traight, is very hard, andtapers from about the middle to a sharp point. The legs arerather short and stout, and the toes are not webbed butnarrowly margined. Turnstones are distributed generally overthe globe. The few species are known everywhere by theirpeculiar habits. Only one inhabits the eastern coast of NorthAmerica. This species, so long sought by gunners and sports-men, has been saved from extinction because it breeds in the farnorth, on the coasts and islands of the Arctic Ocean, where it iscomparatively safe from mankind during the breeding season;but it will continue to decrease in numbers unless better pro-tected. The very least that should be done for its conser-vation is to prohibit spring shooting all along the Atlanticcoast of the United States. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 359 RUDDY TURNSTONE {Arenaria inlerpres morinella).Common or local names: Turnstone; Chicken-plover; Chicken-bird, Chicken; Brant-bird; Redlegs; Sparked-back; Streaked-back; Creddock; Lenuth. — 8 to inches; bill .80 to .90. Adult — Pied above with black, white, brown and chestnut red or rufous;the white top of head streaked with black; upper breast, fore neck andregion about eye black; white showing on back and wnigs m flight;below mainly white, except breast; legs and feet orange red or coral red; bill blackish. •„ 11 i Young - Upper parts brown, streaked with gray or mottled with blackand paler brown; in flight, lower back, wings and tail appear similarto those of adult; sides of throat and breast dark brown, mottled; restof under parts ^ In flight three longitudinal str
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