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ORDER LIMICOLiE. SHORE BIRDS. 



Birds usually of small size, with rounded heads, long legs and necks, 

 and long, soft bills, suited for probing in the mud. Hind toe elevated. 



Largely aquatic and widely distributed. Abundant in America. The 

 order includes many much valued game birds. 



PLATALEID^E. 

 ? ROSEATE SPOONBILL. Ajaja rosea, (Rrisson) Ridgway. 



H^MATOPODID^. 

 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER. Hsematopus palliatus, Temminck. 



STREPSILID.E. 

 TURNSTONE. Strepsilas interpres, (Linne) Illiger. 



CHARADRHDiE. 



BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. Squatarola helvetica, (Linni?) Cuvier. 



GOLDEN PLOVER. Charadrius pluvialis, Linne. 



KILLDEER; KILLDEER PLOVER. Oxyechus vociferus, (Linne) Reich. 



SEMFPALMATED PLOVER, ^gialites semipalmata, (Bonap.) Cabanis. 



PIPING PLOVER, ^gialites meloda, (Ord) Bp. 



WILSON'S PLOVER. Ochtliodromus wilsonius, (Ord) Reich. 



SCOLOPACID.E. 



AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Philohela minor, (Gmel.) Gray. 



ENGLISH SNIPE. Gallinago media, Leach. 



WILSON'S SNIPE. Gallinago media wilsoni, (Temm.) Rids,'way. 



RED-BREASTED SNIPE; GRAY SNIPE. Macrorhamphus griseus, (Gmel.) 



Leach. 

 ? RED-BELLIED SNIPE; GREATER GRAY-BACK. Macrorhamphus griseus 



scolopaceus, (Say) Cones. 

 STILT SANDPIPER. Micropalama himantopus, fBonap.) Baird. 

 KNOT. Tringa canutus, Linne. 



