. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . \ \ ^^^ J/ Uj / /. Plate VIII. AMERICAN , 1500 inches. Head and neck blackish, body slate ; under tail-cov-erts, tips of secondaries, and end of bill white. CLAPPER , 1450 inches. Upper parts pale greenish olive and gray; throatwhite, breast pale cinnamon, flanks gray and white. 101 102 WOODCOCK. It rarely breeds on the Atlantic coast, but is some-times common on our marsh-bordered streams in thefall. SHORE BIRDS. (ORDER LIMICOL^.) Snipes and Sandpipers. (Family Scolopacid^.) The successful pursuit of shore birds on
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . \ \ ^^^ J/ Uj / /. Plate VIII. AMERICAN , 1500 inches. Head and neck blackish, body slate ; under tail-cov-erts, tips of secondaries, and end of bill white. CLAPPER , 1450 inches. Upper parts pale greenish olive and gray; throatwhite, breast pale cinnamon, flanks gray and white. 101 102 WOODCOCK. It rarely breeds on the Atlantic coast, but is some-times common on our marsh-bordered streams in thefall. SHORE BIRDS. (ORDER LIMICOL^.) Snipes and Sandpipers. (Family Scolopacid^.) The successful pursuit of shore birds on our coastsrequires a special knowledge of their notes and of the one hundred known species visit us annu-ally, but of this number only two or three nest, most ofthe others migrating in May to their breeding grounds inthe far North. The return migration takes place duringJuly, August, and Sejitember, Imt with some exceptionsthese birds are seen only by those who hunt them sys-tematically with decoys. Only these exceptions and our summer resident specieswill
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