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county, May 25, i.Sg5. The l)ird was alone and very wary and 

 much careful stalking was necessary in order to secure it. 



iiS. (266). Xi/j//r//i/ts />o/ra/is CFovsi.). Kskinio Curlew. 



The Eskimo Curlew is also a rare migrant in Iowa. It was 

 listed by Allen (White's Cicol. of Iowa, ii, 1S70, 426), and John 

 Krider says: " I found it in Iowa in .Ma\-, migrating westward" 

 (Forty Years' Notes, 1S79, 6S). 



County records: Des Moines — Mus. No. 16803, taken at Bur- 

 lington, April 5, 1893, by Paul Bartsch. Jackson — "rare tran- 

 .sient " (Giddings). Johnson — specimens in Univensity mu.seum 

 taken by Frank Bond (Nutting, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., 1.S92). 

 Van Buren — "spring migrant, very rare" (W. G. Savage). 



Family CHARADRIID.E. Plovers. 



The Plovers, in a general way, resemble the true Snipe, but 

 have, as a rule, shorter, thicker bills, which are not adapted for 

 probing. They pick up their food from the surface of the ground, 

 and are found on uplands quite as frequently as upon the shores. 



Genus Souatarola Cuvier. 



119. (270). Sqiiafaro/a sguaiarola {lM\n.). Black-bellied Plo\-er. 

 The Black-bellied Plover is a rather rare migrant in Iowa, and 



.somewhat irregular in its occurrence. In some plumages it 

 resembles the Crolden Plover, but may be recognized by the pres- 

 ence of a very small hind toe. John Krider mentions the species 

 as " abundant in Iowa, where it arrives about the first of Ma}-, 

 feeding over the plowed ground " (Forty Years' Notes, 1879, 61): 

 also as " ver}^ common at T^ake Mills, Iowa " {Forest and Stream , 

 i- 15' I'^^Jj' 235). Shoemaker listed the Black-bellied Plover as an 

 abundant migrant in Franklin county (1896), and Berry as a tol- 

 erably common migrant in Linn. Most observers consider the 

 species as rare. A specimen in the Ihiiversity museum, No. 

 16304, was taken at Burlington, Aug. 13, 1894, ^^Y Pawl Bartsch. 



Genus Charadrius Linnaeus. 



120. (272). C/iaradriN:^ doiiiiiiiius ^InW. American Golden Plover. 

 The American Golden Plover is rather more common in Iowa 



than the preceding species and may be readily distinguished by 

 its lack of a hind toe. It occurs only as a migrant. "In the 



