. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 208 PRiECOCIAL GUALLATOUES— LIMICOL^ heavy rains and the overHowing of tlio pools compel tlin binlH to seek the borders of the sea, where at other times it is not nsual to find tiicm. This speeies is given by Dr. (iiindhieh as oeeurring in Cuba, but only as a visitant. In Massaeluisetts tliis sjieeies ajipears, on its way nortli, about the last of May, and makes but a very short stay, returnini,' in August, later than the ArfodninidH iii'iiiiitillii, all having left l)y tiie middh' of Septendier
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 208 PRiECOCIAL GUALLATOUES— LIMICOL^ heavy rains and the overHowing of tlio pools compel tlin binlH to seek the borders of the sea, where at other times it is not nsual to find tiicm. This speeies is given by Dr. (iiindhieh as oeeurring in Cuba, but only as a visitant. In Massaeluisetts tliis sjieeies ajipears, on its way nortli, about the last of May, and makes but a very short stay, returnini,' in August, later than the ArfodninidH iii'iiiiitillii, all having left l)y tiie middh' of Septendier. They are in greatly reducecl numbers as eomjiared with former years, when all the l)eaehes and mud-Hats apjieared alive with the numerous tloeks of " Peeps," as they are called — a name also given ti) the A. mbmtUIn and ./. /inii(i/i<irf!!. Mr. Dresser met with none of this speeies near San Antonio, but found it not uncommon near Matannmis, though not so conunon as the mluiittlld. , how- ever, mentions it as found in Texas in great numbers in A])ril, and as moving north- ward with celerity, both along the sea-shore and the larger streams. Audubon states that he found it dispersed in pairs tliroughout Labrador, and having nests there in .fune, though he was not able to find any, the birds s(piatting on the moss as if they had a nest, and thus efl'ectually misleading his ])arty. lie also states that he often saw this spe(;ies in considerable nund)ers along the shores of the Ohio and the Mississippi during autumn. At this season they fed on fresh-water insects, worms, and small coleojjtera, became very fat, and afforded exe(dlent eating; this, he adds, is rtindy the case when they are found along the sea-shore. Their Hight is swift and wtdl sustained; and when alarmed, or just before alighting, their evolutions are very graceful. Mr. lioardman informs ns that this spctcies is very abundant in the vicinity of Calais, but d(X's not breed there. It nsually
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