SANDPIPEKS. 165 



notes, a kind of love song as the bird ad- 

 vances with down-curved pinions and rapid 

 wing-heats. Occurs throughout eastern N. 

 A. breeding north of the U. S.; comes south 

 from middle of July until Nov.; winters 

 from N. C. through the Bahamas and W. I. 



Fig. 135 



Killdeer. 1-3. 



to S. A.; north in May. Stragglers of this 

 species and of a number of other sandpipers 

 that usually go north of us are often found 

 in Mass, all summer. Sportsmen cnll this 

 species. Peep, Black-legged Peep and Sand 

 Peep. 



