STILTS. 



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94. BLACK-NECKED STILT. 



Size. 14; bill longer than head and 

 nearly straip:ht; top of head to middle of 

 back and wings, black; tail gray; spot be- 

 hind eye and plumage not mentioned, white; 

 bill, black; iris, red; feet, crimson; fig. 103. 

 Female with back brownish. Young differ 

 from last in having back banded with dull 



PiiT. 104 



American Woodcock. 



white and top of head finely mottled with 

 it. Breeding note a loud put repeated many 

 times at regular intervals as the bird either 

 sits or flies; alarm, a series of harsh screams. 

 Flight, steady, not swift, wing-beats rather 

 slow and low sweeping. When on the wing, 

 the head is held partly back, but the legs 

 are fully extended or in short flights are 

 held dangling. Although it often wades in 



