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LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS. 



mandible below surface, thus secure what 

 food floats on surface. Cries harsh and 

 abrupt, much like the bark of a young 

 puppy or fox. Eggs placed on sand near 

 sea; 2-3, white handsomely mottled with 

 dark-brown and lilac. Coasts of warmer 

 portions of America breeding on Atlantic 



Fig. 97 



Auult 9 



Phaiarope. 1-4. 



side from N. J. southward in May. Winters 

 from Fla. Keys northward. 



SHORE BIRDS. 



Long-legged and usually long-winged 

 with elongated tertiaries; bill variable but 

 quite long and slender; size, also variable 

 but never very large. Eggs, usually 4, 

 pyraform, almost always placed on ground. 



