. 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 . e fromnape to eye ; chin and throat, white, spotted with brown; neck all around,buff, crossed with fine dark-brown lines; upper parts reddish chestnut, ver-miculated with buffy spots and brown lines, and blotched on the back andscapulars with black, the latter as well as the back mixed with lightgrayish; rump, reddish brown, barred narrowly
. 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 . e fromnape to eye ; chin and throat, white, spotted with brown; neck all around,buff, crossed with fine dark-brown lines; upper parts reddish chestnut, ver-miculated with buffy spots and brown lines, and blotched on the back andscapulars with black, the latter as well as the back mixed with lightgrayish; rump, reddish brown, barred narrowly with black, the uppertail-coverts tipped with gray or buffy; tail, black, margined on outer webwith chestnut and tipped with grayish buff on the upper surface, and withsilver white on the lower; entire under parts, grayish buff, narrowly barredwith brown; primaries, dark brown, transversely banded with cinnamon onouter webs; bill, flesh color, graduating into brown for the terminal third;legs and feet, flesh color; iris, hazel. Length, 13^ inches; wing, 8;culmen, 3^ ; tarsus, \yz. Young differ chiefly in having buff bases to the gray tips on the uppersurface of the tail-feathers, and the chestnut on the outer webs becomesbars reaching to the AMERICAN WOODCOCK. KNOWN familiarly to sportsmen and others through-out the country, this favorite game bird is gradu-ally becoming scarcer within our limits. The high priceit brings in the market, and the constant demand for itfrom the wealthy denizens of our cities, has caused it tobe assiduously sought after by gunners in every localitywhere it was likely to be found, and from the time theyoung are scarcely able to fly until they depart ontheir migrations into places where, perchance, they mayobtain a temporary refuge, their pursuit is never re-laxed nor their slaughter discontinued. It is foundgenerally throughout the eastern United States, butrare west of the Mississippi, and wherever found insummer, there it breeds. Although k
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