: ORDERS. 
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ORDER 9. SHORE BIRDS. Limicole, 
Comparatively small, long legged, slender-billed 
birds seen running along edges of ponds or beaches. 
PHALAROPHS. Phalaropodide.—Toes with lobed 
webs. 
AVOCETS,- STILTS. Recurvirostride :—Avocet, 
with slender recurved bill, and webbed feet; stilt, 
with straight bill, very long legs, toes not webbed. 
SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. Family Scolopa- 
cidw:—Bills very variable but slender, and all, ex- 
cept the Woodcock, with long pointed wings; flight 
usually swift and erratic. 
PLOVERS. Family Charadriid@:—Bill short and 
stout; three toes. 
TURNSTONES. Family Aphrizid@:—Bill short, 
stout and slightly up-turned; four toes. 
OYSTER-CATCHERS. Family Hematopodid@:— 
Bill long, heavy and compressed; legs and toes stout; 
three toes slightly webbed at base. 
JACANAS. Family Jacanide:—Bill with leaf-like 
shield at the base; legs and toes extremely long and 
slender; sharp spur on wing. 
