LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Yellow Rail, 



Black Rail, 



Purple Gallinule, 



Florida Gallinule, 



Coot, 



Red Phalarope, . 



Northern Phalarope, . 



Wilson's Phalarope, 



Avocet, 



Black-necked Stilt, 



Wilson's Snipe, . 



Dowitcher, 



Stilt Sandpiper, . 



Knot, 



Purple Sandpiper, 



Pectoral Sandpiper, 



White-rumped Sandpiper, 



Baird's Sandpiper, 



Least Sandpiper, 



Red-backed Sandpiper, 



Semipalmated Sandpiper, 



Sanderling, 



Marbled Godwit, 



Hudsonian Godwit, 



Greater Yellow-legs, 



Yellow-legs, 



Solitary Sandpiper, 



Willet, 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 



Long-billed Curlew, 



Hudsonian Curlew, 



Black-bellied Plover, 



Golden Plover, . 



Killdeer Plover, 



Semipalmated Plover, 



Piping Plover, 



Ruddy Turnstone, 



Oyster-catcher, . 



Bob-white, 



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Figures in the Text. 

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