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108. .Sgialitis meloda circumcinota RiJow. Belted Piping Plovke. 



Migrant, not common. Summer resident northward. Mr. H. K. Coale in- 

 forms me of the capture of three specimens in Lake County, one at Tolleston, May 

 1, 1880, and a pair near Whiting, May 25, 1879. "Late in May, 1885, I saw a 

 pair of Belted Piping Plover on a sandbar in the White river north of Wheat- 

 land, Indiana." (Ridgway.) There is a specimen in the collection of Prof. H. 

 Duemling, Ft. Wayne, taken near that place. (Stockbridge.) "Common summer 

 resident along the shore of Lake Michigan." (Brayton.) 



Family APHRIZID^E. Surf Bird.s and Tuenstone.s. 



Subfamily ARENARIIN^E. Turnstones. 



Genus ARENARIA Brissox. 



109. Ar^naria iuterpres {Linn.) Turnstone. 



Bill of Turnstone. 



Rare migrant southward. "Common along Lake Michigan." (Brayton.) 

 Reported by Dr. Haymond from Franklin County. (Ind. Geol. Rept., 1869, p. 

 228.) Identified by Mr. Ruthven Deane in Starke County May 20, 1888. 



Order GALLIXJi]. Uallixaceul's Birds. 



Suborder PHASIAXI. Pheasants, Grouse, Partridces. 



Quail, etc. 



Family TETRAONID.E. Grou.se, Partridges, etc. 



Subfamily PERDICIN.E. Partridges. 



Genus COLINUS Lesson. 



'110. CoUnus virginianas (Linn.). Bob-wbite, "Quail." 



Resident, common in most places. In the vicinity of our larger cities and in 

 the north western part of the State they are becoming scarce. Breed. The past 

 fall and winter — 1890-1 — they have been more numerous in most localities in 

 southern Indiana, at least, than for more than ten years. The winter of 1878-9 

 they were almost exterminated by reason of the severe weather and their inability 

 to procure food. Whole covies were found in many localities dead where they had 

 " huddled " together. For several years thereafter but few were found, but their 

 abundance through the past season has been remarked and many are left for next 

 year. In late October and through November our quails seem to desire to migrate. 

 Hunters say they become crazy. They come into towns and cities in flocks, are 

 readily caught in the hand, and many are killed by Hying against obstructions. 

 They seem lost and continually call for their mates, while they also are very tame. 

 It is noticed that farms which had several flocks on them throughout the summer 

 are deserted by Bob-whites— Quails, as we know them — in November, while others 



