. 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 . )south to northern Bahamas; winters from southern Lower California,Texas and Florida south to southern Guatemala and probably to WestIndies; casual in Nova Scotia and New England, and at San Diego, Cal. bird is an acci
. 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 . )south to northern Bahamas; winters from southern Lower California,Texas and Florida south to southern Guatemala and probably to WestIndies; casual in Nova Scotia and New England, and at San Diego, Cal. bird is an accidental visitor from the south. Thereare two tenable Massachusetts records, namely, a specimentaken at the Gurnet, Plymouth, August22, 1877, by Arthur S. Fiske,i and onetaken from a gunners bag at Ipswichby Dr. C. W. Townsend, May 8, 1904.^Linsley records it at Stratford, Conn.,and Eaton gives eight records for NewYork. Peabody states in his report on ^ ,„ „,., , ^, •^ ^ Fig. 19.—Wilsons Plover. the Birds of Massachusetts (1839) that the species was abundant at Nahant in 1838. This record,says Dr. C. W. Townsend, was believed to be on the authorityof Dr. Brewer, who later refuted the statement. 1 Coues, Elliott: Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1882, p. 59. 2 Townsend, C. W.: Memoirs, Nuttall Orn. Club, No. III., The Birds of Essex County, Mass.,1905, p. 358 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. Dr. Brewer himself says, in reviewing Dr. J. A. Allenslist of Massachusetts birds, that in his opinion this speciesis not to be anticipated in Massachusetts. Nevertheless, astwo records have been made since his opinion was promul-gated, the Wilsons Plover may be confidently looked for as astraggler at least in Massachusetts. It formerly bred northto New Jersey and probably visited New England during thelate summer, as at that time birds are given to wandering,and some species from the southern States occasionally reachNew England. Like all the shore birds which formerly bredalong
Size: 1784px × 1400px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1912
