. 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 . bia. When driven bystorms at sea, or lost in the fog, it takes refuge sometimes inshallow ponds. It has a habit of spinning round in a , who has observed it, says that it gives a rotarymotion to the water that brings
. 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 . bia. When driven bystorms at sea, or lost in the fog, it takes refuge sometimes inshallow ponds. It has a habit of spinning round in a , who has observed it, says that it gives a rotarymotion to the water that brings to the surface small forms ofaquatic life, which the bird seizes, darting its bill into thewater two or three times with each revolution. Northern Phalaropes fly rapidly and often erratically, likethe Wilsons Snipe. On the water they rest as lightly as agull, and swim about alertly, with quick motions of the head,but are unsuspicious and easily approached. Dr. Townsend gives some records made by Mr. A. F. Tarr,the head keeper of Cape Ann lights, the twin lighthouses onThatchers Island. Among them it is stated that on the nightof September 2, 1899, an immense flock dashed against thelight. One man picked up eight hundred dead, and estimated that one thousand were destroyed. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 229 \A/ILSONS PHALAROPE (Steganopus tricolor).. Summer. Winter. Length. — to inches. Adult Female in Spring. ■— Above dark ashy gray, paler on the crown andrump and whitening on back of neck; throat, cheeks, line over eyeand small crescent below it white; a dusky stripe from bill through andbelow eye, becoming black behind and extending down side of upperneck, where it changes to chestnut or dark wine red, widening thereand extending down over side of neck, shoulders and back; a similarchestnut stripe below it just above wing; wings grayish brown; outerfeathers (primaries) dusky; below white, the fore neck and breasttinged with pale chestnut, the latter
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