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ConrtTENTS. 
CHAPTER X. 
THE SHORE BIRDS. 
Shore birds: One time more abundant than at present— 
Turnbull’s account of those which have become rare— 
Phalaropes or ‘‘Coot-footed Snipe’—Red Phalarope— 
Wilson’s Phalarope — Stilt—Avocet—Woodcock: Curi- 
ous courtship of this bird—Common Snipe—Robin Snipe 
—The Sand-pipers: Their great variety—Teeter-Tiltup— 
Solitary Sand-piper: Its nesting habits—Bartram’s Tattler 
or Grass Plover—Peeps or Least Sand-piper—Black-bel- 
lied Plover—Golden Plover—Other Plovers—Killdeer : 
An inland bird—Turnstone—Oyster-catcher . 
CHAP AER xor- 
HERONS, RAILS, ETC. 
Herons: Their common features: One time abundant, but 
now less common: Nesting in colonies or ‘‘ heronries’’— 
Roseate Spoon-bill— Scarlet Ibis—Glossy Ibis—Wood 
Ibis—Common Bittern: Its curious cry or “ booming :” 
how produced—Least - Bittern—Great and Little Blue 
Heron—American Egret or Snowy Heron—Green Heron 
or Fly-up-the-Creek — Night-heron — Yellow-crowned 
Night-heron— Cranes: At one time common in New 
Jersey, when migrating: Now never seen—Clapper-rail 
—King-rail: Its nesting habits—Virginia Rail—Sora— 
Yellow-breasted Rail—Purple and Florida Gallinules— 
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CHAPTER X11. 
DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS. 
Once much more abundant than at the present time—Quo- 
tation from Peter Kalm’s travels in North America, 1748- 
1749—Swans—The Trumpeter Swan—The Whistling 
Swan—Wild Geese: Eight species, but two of which 
common on Atlantic seaboard—-Sheldrakes—Ducks— 
Mallard, Black Duck, and other species: Common in au- 
tumn in our larger river valleys—Wood-duck not migra- 
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