138 SHOKE BIRDS. 



banded with reddish buff and mottled with 

 ashy brown; beneath, reddish-buff; bill and 

 feet, brown, fig. 105. Downy-young, rust- 

 buff throughout mottled and spotted above 

 with brown. Often occurs in alder swamps. 

 Flight direct and swift, wing beats rapid 



Fig. 108 



Dowitcher. 1-6. 



often accompanied by a whistling sound. 

 From early March to July gives the evening 

 flight song on or near feeding ground. 

 After giving a series of bleating cries on 

 ground the male bird rises in a huge ever- 

 narrowing spiral until at its apix he is 

 directly over where he started; he then 



