. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. UP THE RIVER 377 into bays like this, but keep more on the outer beaches. The other one, with bUick under parts and dark back finely speckled with yellow, is the Golden Plover, who often visits our beaches and marshy ; " Do either of them ever nest up the river? " asked Dodo. "No, indeed—you would have to travel many hun- dreds of miles to find the lonely Arctic beaches they both call home. They only come this way before they take the long fall journey to South America, where they winter ;
. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. UP THE RIVER 377 into bays like this, but keep more on the outer beaches. The other one, with bUick under parts and dark back finely speckled with yellow, is the Golden Plover, who often visits our beaches and marshy ; " Do either of them ever nest up the river? " asked Dodo. "No, indeed—you would have to travel many hun- dreds of miles to find the lonely Arctic beaches they both call home. They only come this way before they take the long fall journey to South America, where they winter ; and in tlie spring-time they are usually in too great a hurry to stop.' " What do they look like very near by ? " asked Dodo, avIio always wanted de- tails, while the boys took a more gen- eral sportsman- a,' like interest. " The Turnstone " , ,Jtr* | * '^lii'^W is very trim and ^ ' '" ' - ..,J^^^^^'V-^m% pretty when seen 1 ^11 1 American Golden Plover. close at hand, and from the pattern of the feathers is often called Calico- bird. The Golden Plover is darker and not so con- spicuously marked, especially at this ; The Turnstone Length nine and a half inches. In sunnner: Upper parts l)oldly variegated with black, white, and reddish-brown; tail black, with white base and tip. Under parts white, with large black marks on the breast. Bill and e3^es black; feet orange, w ith a very small hind Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York : The Macmillan company
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