14:5" 



SUBKINGDOM VERTEBRATA. 



Fig. 244. 



Charadrius virginicus. Gold c a Plover. 



Fig. 245. 



Hcema&pus palliatus, Oyster-catcher. 

 Fig. sis. 



worms, etc. The Golden 

 Plover inhabits all the 

 continent of America. 



Kaexnatopodidae. 

 The Oyster-catcher of 

 the Atlantic coast has a 

 >M11, long, abrupt, and 

 chisel-like, adapted to 

 opening the shells of 

 bivalve mollusks and 

 detaching limpets from 

 the rocks. 

 E, e c 11 r v irostridae. 

 The Avocet possesses a re- 

 curved, flattened bill, use- 

 ful for scooping up small 

 fish and aquatic insects, as 

 it sweeps the narrow runs, 

 with a movement like that 

 of a mower swinging a 

 scythe. 



S c o 1 o p a c idae. The 

 Snipes have long, grooved, 

 flexible bills, well supplied 

 with nerves to the end, 



Fig. 247. 



PhiloKSla minor, Woodcock. J. 



Recurwrostra americana, AvOcet 



