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and in response to the cries of a bird that has been shot, a 

 flock sometimes will return, and with loud cries circle near the 

 gunner, at close range, until several more have been brought 

 down. (D. G. Elliot.) 



Besides the shore birds mentioned above, there are several 

 groups which are of interest chiefly to the special student, 

 and which there is no space to introduce here, save by name. 

 There are the oyster-catchers, turnstones, godwits, stilts and 

 phalaropes. In the Order Limicolae as a whole there are in 

 North America, north of Mexico, about seventy-five species 

 and subspecies. 



