. 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 . rown, gray; a mixed black and gray stripe under the eye; sides of neck,white, washed with brownish yellow ; hind-neck, bluish gray; back andwings, bluish gray, feathers margined with grayish white; rump and tail,blackish brown, the central tail-feathers bordered with grayish white. 28 NORTH AMERICAN SHORE BIRDS. Young, First Plumage.—Crown,
. 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 . rown, gray; a mixed black and gray stripe under the eye; sides of neck,white, washed with brownish yellow ; hind-neck, bluish gray; back andwings, bluish gray, feathers margined with grayish white; rump and tail,blackish brown, the central tail-feathers bordered with grayish white. 28 NORTH AMERICAN SHORE BIRDS. Young, First Plumage.—Crown, plumbeous dusky, sometimes streaked;back and scapulars, blackish, margined with buff; innermost secondaries,upper tail-coverts, and tail, dark brown, margined with chestnut; forehead,front of the eye, and under parts, white; sides of breast, washed with brown. Downy Young.— Above, bright tawny, the rump with three parallelstripes of black, inclosing two of lighter fulvous than the ground color;crown covered by a triangular patch of mottled darker brown, boundedirregularly with blackish; a black line over ears not reaching to the eye;throat and rest of head, light tawny fulvous; rest of lower parts, white,becoming grayish posteriorly.— WILSONS PHALAROPE. /~\NE of the most beautiful of all our waders, this^-^ handsome and graceful bird is restricted to theNew World, and is more of an inland species, rarely-visiting the seacoast. It is abundant and generally dis-tributed throughout the Mississippi Valley, and does notfrequent very high northern latitudes like its relatives,but, on the other hand, penetrates much farther south-ward than any other species of Phalarope. On theeastern portion of the United States it is rather a rarebird, being occasionally met with on the seacoast fromMassachusetts to New Jersey. It is quite common inIllinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Utah, and Ore-gon, in all of which States it breeds, and also on theSaskatchewan Plains, where Ric
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