. 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 . feathers ; top of head, blackish,with central and lateral buff lines ; chin and upper part of throat, whitish ;neck all round, and upper part of breast, deep buff with dark-brown streaks;back, black varied with rufous and buff, the latter forming lines, and veryconspicuous ; wings, blackish brown, the coverts and secondaries barred andtipped
. 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 . feathers ; top of head, blackish,with central and lateral buff lines ; chin and upper part of throat, whitish ;neck all round, and upper part of breast, deep buff with dark-brown streaks;back, black varied with rufous and buff, the latter forming lines, and veryconspicuous ; wings, blackish brown, the coverts and secondaries barred andtipped with buff or buffy white ; primaries, brownish black, and edged withwhite at tip, outer web of first pure white for nearly the entire length;rump and upper tail-coverts, rufous barred with black; tail, central feathers 46 NORTH AM ERICA X SHORE BIRDS. black, with a rufous bar on apical portion, and tipped with buff; remainderrufous barred with black; axillaries and flanks, white barred with black;rest of under parts, white; under tail-coverts, reddish buff barred with black ;bill, reddish brown at base, dark brown at tip; legs, pale greenish ; iris, darkbrown. Length, lo inches; wing, 5; bill, 23/; tail, 2%. The sexes arealike; female the 10. Wilsons Snipe. WILSONS SNIPE. TTIGHLY esteemed as a game bird, the present spe-^ ^ cies, known universally as the English Snipe, isdistributed at different seasons of the year through-out the United States from the Atlantic to the the name given above, it has many local ap-pellations, and is called in different sections JackSnipe, Bog and Marsh Snipe, Alewife Bird, ShadBird, Shad Spirit, Gutter Snipe, etc. Though occa-sionally nesting in different parts of the NorthernStates, its breeding range is from latitude 42° northto well within the Arctic Circle. In its migrationsouthwards it penetrates into South America. In Sep-tember it arrives in the United States from its sum-mer quarters, and is found frequently in g
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