. 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 . , as theyseem rather to dislike tall grass. The marshes and the com-mon pasture about Newburyport, the hill pastures and shoresof Ipswich, the sandy hills and fields of Cape Cod, and thepastures of Tuckernuck, Nantucket and Marthas
. 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 . , as theyseem rather to dislike tall grass. The marshes and the com-mon pasture about Newburyport, the hill pastures and shoresof Ipswich, the sandy hills and fields of Cape Cod, and thepastures of Tuckernuck, Nantucket and Marthas Vineyardwere favorite feeding grounds of this bird. Every farmer knows, or should know, that the grasshoppers,locusts, crickets, white grubs, cutworms and wire worms whichthe Plover eat are reckoned among the most destructive of allpests in the hayfield, grain field or garden, and it must be evi-dent to all thoughtful people that the immense flocks of GoldenPlover which formerly swept north and south over the fertileplains of this country would have done great service to agri-culture had they been protected during their flights up anddown the continent. 1 Nash, Charles W.: Birds of Ontario, 1909, p. 24 (Bull. 173, Ontario Dept. of Agr.). 348 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. KILLDEER (Oxyechus vociferus).Common or local names: Killdeer Plover; Length. — 9 to inches; bill .80. Adult. — Top of head and entire back brown: chin, throat and ring entirelyaround neck white; forehead and sides of head black and white beforeeye, passing to brown and buffy behind it; lower parts white; a blackcollar, widening in front, and a narrow black band across breast a littlebelow it; wings show contrast of dark and white when spread: rumpand base of tail vary from orange brown to light chestnut or cinnamon;tail variegated with cinnamon or chestnut brown, l)lack and white andtheir gradations; bill, iris, legs and feet blackish. Young. — Similar, but the black bands replac
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