Identifier: birdcraftfield00wrig (find matches)
Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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pt movement. FAMILY CHARADRIID^: PLOVERS.Black-bellied Plover: Charadrius squatarola* Length: 11-12 inches. Male and Female: Breeding-plumage black and white, seldom seenin United States. Fall plumage, above mottled with black,gray, and yellowish; beneath whitish. Wings and tail nearlyeven. Bill long and black ; feet black. Axillary feathers black. Season: Migrant; common in autumn. Breeds: Far north. Bange : Nearly cosmopolitan, but chiefly in the Northern Hemisphere,migrating south in winter; in America, to the West Indies,Brazil, and New Granada. The Plovers are wading Shore-birds, feeding on beetles,grasshoppers, worms, larvae, and fresh-water shell-fish. Thisspecies breeds in the Arctic regions and appears here innumbers in the fall migration only. It is then fairly, butirregularly, abundant about the marsh-ponds, and is anextremely handsome bird, having a clear, whistling cry. Itarrives about the middle of September, after the generalmigration of the Golden Plover. 232 PLATE 64.
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1. TURNSTONE.Length, 8-9 inches. 2. AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. Length, 10-11 inches. SHORE AND MARSH BIRDS. Plovers American Golden Plover: Charadrius dominicus. Field Plover. Plate 64. Fig. 2. Length: 10-11 inches. Male and Female: Subject to great variations of plumage. Abovemottled with black and greenish yellow ; whitish below. Axil-lary feathers dark ashy. Bill and feet black. Season : Common autumn migrant; early September. Breeds : Arctic regions. Bange: Arctic America, migrating southward throughout North andSouth America to Patagonia. This species is the well-known Plover of the markets, andthe favourite of sportsmen. They are to be found in the salt-marshes and about sand-bars and tide-pools. Their comingis irregular; sometimes a great flock will alight, and thenagain only a few stragglers. They usually pass from lateAugust until middle September; heavy storms may delaythem, or, if the weather is evenly fine, they often fly overany given locality without pausing. This uncertain

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