THE SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 489 
This Plover is found singly or in little companies, more frequently in 
late summer or fall, and it mingles freely with other migrating waders. I 
shall not soon forget a sight which once met my eyes on one of the Lake 
Ivrie Islands in early August. A lagoon, filled with water only when the 
East wind blew 
stretches of 
est cover of 
strongly, presented inviting 
warm mud, bordered by the dens- 
bind-weed and rank grasses. With 
great labor Mr. Jones and [ made 
our way, unobserved, to the edge 
Taken in Lorain County. Photo by the Author. 
SHORE BIRD INN. 
THIS LITTLE SWAMP LIES JUST BACK FROM THE LAKE ERIE SHORE AND WAS TENANTED, AT THE TIME THIS 
PICTURE WAS TAKEN, BY EIGHT KINDS OF SHORE BIRDS. THE SCENE IS NOT, HOWEVER, THE ONE REFERRED TO 
IN THE TEXT. A SEMIPALMATED PLOVER MAY BE FAINTLY DESCRIED AS HE STANUS REFLECTING NEAR THE LEFT 
CENTER. 
of the tangle, and parting the grass blades, looked out upon eight kinds 
of Limicole within a stone’s throw of us. There were Semipalmated Plov- 
ers, Killdeers, Yellow-legs, with Solitary, Pectoral, Least, and Semipal- 
mated Sandpipers, and a chance Spotted which held itself aloof from 
the foreigners. There they pattered and scampered, or stalked, according 
to their kind. They dozed, or prodded, or teetered and bowed, or put up 
a slender, tentative wing to try the motion of the air, as fancy led them, 
until our brains were fairly awhirl with the delicious confusion of this 
rare ornithological sight. 
