OF NORTH AMERICA. 89 
It shares with its relative (No. 99) the 
esteem of sportsmen, and rivals it in its deli- 
cacy as a table bird. 
It frequents the high beaches and neighbor- 
ing uplands, and in habits and food much re- 
sembles No. 98, with which it much associates. 
These birds are shot on their flights, from 
holes dug in the ground and used as a cover 
for the gunner. 
1016 SK LLEDEER. 
Aigialitis vocifera. 
Top of head and upper parts dark grayish- 
brown. Forehead, stripe over the eye, and 
under parts white, with two black bands on 
the throat. Rump bright chestnut. Wings 
and tail variegated with black, brown and 
o 
white. Leneth 10 inches. Extent 20 inches. 
Legs yellowish-gray. The immature plumage 
is similar but not as bright. 
They frequent the pastures and marshes 
and the borders of muddy ponds, and are very 
abundant in the West. They were formerly 
very plentiful on our Eastern shores, but of 
late are seldom seen. ‘The only time that 
any number have lately been seen Kast, was 
in November of 1888, when thousands were 
driven upon our shores by the great gale of 
November 25, and was then announced by 
me in the Boston Transcript of December 
12. It was thought by some that these birds 
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were now to return to their old haunts, but 
