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1906. A single bird was observed May 25, 1905. Two speci- 
mens have been taken by Bryant at Cooley Lake and Lake City 
respectively. Four birds were seen by Judge Guinotte on a 
‘sandbar near Sibley on November 2, 1917. 
NUMENIUS BOREALIS (J. B. Forster). Eskimo Curlew. 
Formerly common spring migrant, now probably extinct. 
This curlew, like the Golden Plover, migrates south over the 
Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia in the fall, only a few choos- 
ing the inland route at that season, but all return in the spring 
up the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. No specimen of this 
once common game bird has been seen in this vicinity for many 
years and it is now considered nearly, if not quite, extinct. 
Family CHARADRIIDAE. Plovers. 
SSQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA (Linn.). 
SQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA CYNOSURAE Thayer & Bangs.  Pro- 
posed October, 1916. Black-bellied Plover. 
Very rare and irregular migrant. 
This bird was a not uncommon migrant prior to 1890; it has 
now become so rare that many years pass without one being 
seen. None had been seen or reported for five years prior to 
1916, when Tindall killed one out of a small flock on the Mis- 
souri River near Courtney on November 13th. 
CHARADRIUS DOMINICUS DOMINICUS (Muller). Golden Plover. 
Not rare migrant in spring; very rare in autumn. 
Like the Upland Plover, the Golden Plover was formerly 
taken in great numbers on the prairie regions of western Jack- 
son County. It is now greatly reduced in numbers, though 
small flocks are still seen during the latter part of April and 
rarely in October and November, as the bulk of the flight in 
autumn takes the Atlantic route. 
It is to be looked for on the uplands as well as about marshes 
and swampy places. 
OxYECHUS vociFERUS (Linn.). Killdeer. 
Common migrant and not uncommon summer resident. 
The early arrivals from the south appear from the middle 
to the last of February and a month later the bulk of the mi- 
