. American ornithology for the home and school . DOG FANCIER. Established i8gi. A MONTHLY KENNEL PUBLICATION. The oldest, most popularand most prosperousamateur kennel publication in America. Contains each month appropriate reading matter andillustrations of great valne to every owner of a dog. ^^d-Oerlijers get excellent results, and the ratesare very low. Covers the entire United Statesand Canada, and if hes got a dog you are prettysure to reach him through The Dog Fancier. A sample copy will be sent free. Subscription price, 50c a year. EUGENE GLASS, Publisher, Battle Creek, Mich. Guide to
. American ornithology for the home and school . DOG FANCIER. Established i8gi. A MONTHLY KENNEL PUBLICATION. The oldest, most popularand most prosperousamateur kennel publication in America. Contains each month appropriate reading matter andillustrations of great valne to every owner of a dog. ^^d-Oerlijers get excellent results, and the ratesare very low. Covers the entire United Statesand Canada, and if hes got a dog you are prettysure to reach him through The Dog Fancier. A sample copy will be sent free. Subscription price, 50c a year. EUGENE GLASS, Publisher, Battle Creek, Mich. Guide to Taxidermy. One hundred pages. Full of valuableinformation, with complete ■ instructionshow to prepare and mount Birds, AnimaLlsQLrvd Fish ^ ^ ^ also a complete list of all North Ameri-can Birds, with prices of their eggs, andskins and mounted specimens; also anexhaustive line of Ornithologists, Oolo-gists and Taxidermists supplies, valu-able information for the amateur, recipes,etc. 35 Cent^ K. REED. A. WOFLCESTER, iQ-u-{i-{i-ti-a-u-(j-g^g=i Vol. /. March 190L JSfo,3 GREATER YELLOW LEGS. A- O I/. JWo- 234-- {Totanuj melanoleucuj.) North America generaUy, breeding from northern United Statesnorthward to Labrador. Migrates in winter- to Chili and the Argen-tine Republic. DESCRIPTION. Length, 14 inches; extent of wings, 25 inches; tail, 3 inches; billslender, black, and about inches long; eyes brown; legs long andslender, yellow. Upper parts grayish brown spotted with white andblack. Rump and tail white, the latter barred with brown. Throatand under parts white, streaked with black on breast, head and neck. NEST AND EGGS. The nest is simply a slight depression in the ground lined with eggs are three to four in number, grayish buff, blotched with varyingshades of brown. HABITS. The Greater Yellow-legs, Tell- They are sociable, and travel tale, or Winter Yellow-legs is together in quite large flocks. rather a common shore bird d
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