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it breeding in several localities in the northern part of the State, and Mr. Coale 

 reports young able to run July 4, 1881, in Lake County. 



Head of Spotted Sandpiper, nat size. 



GENUS ACTITIS ILLIGKR. 

 *99. Actitis macularia (Linn.). SPOTTED SANDPIPER; " PEET-WEET" ; "SANDPIPER." 



Common summer resident, frequenting the banks and sandbars of streams. 

 Breeds. 



Long-billed Curlew. 

 GENUS NUMENIUS BBISSON. 

 100- Numenius longirostris Wils. LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 



Migrant, not common. Has been reported from the following counties : Deca- 

 tur, May, 1883, (Guthrie); Knox and White ( Dury); Allen ( Stockbridge ). 



101. Numenius hudsonicus Lath. HUDSONIAN CURLEW; "JACK CURLEW." 

 Rare migrant with the preceding. (Brayton.) 



102. Numenius borealis ( Foret.). ESKIMO CURLEW. 



Rare migrant. Reported by Mr. Dury from Vincennes and Chalmers. 



FAMILY CHARADRIID.E PLOVERS. 



GENUS CHARADRIUS LINNAEUS. 

 Subgenus SQUATAROLA Cuvier. 



Black-bellied Plover, nat. size. 

 103. Charadrius squatarola ( Linn.) BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 



Rare migrant. A pair were shot at Davis Station, Starke County, May 15, 

 1884, (Coale.) Reported from Knox County, March 30, 1888. ( Balmer.) 



