PLOVER SHOOTING 



WHEN the spring days begin to 

 send scattering showers over 

 prairies, marshes, and rivers, the 

 plover come in from the southern states, and 

 even from South America. They have win- 

 tered in the south by sea-shore and marsh, by 

 lake and river, and with the migratory in- 

 stinct of their kind, have flocked north at the 

 approach of warmer weather. Almost at the 

 breaking up of winter the kildee, or ring- 

 necked plover, has come. He is the advance 

 guard of an army of different species of 

 plover which soon follow. 



The kildees, or kildeer plover, so called 

 from its two-syllabled cry, are small birds, 

 grayish brown on the back with a pure white 

 breast, and with two black collars encircling 

 the neck. They are the most restless of all 

 the plover tribe, and often move about un- 

 easily when in the fields, or along the edges 

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