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Mr. Hri'Mscr ini't with tliis |)ir(l lu'iii' MataiimraK luti- in AiiKiiHt. VisitinK tiic 

 Im^'iiiiii cut'l.v niii' moniiiiKi Ix' luitio'il ;i tlmk nt' Siiiiii|ii|)crs iii'iii' liim. nn ^ littlit 

 >{iiiHsy i>I;i'''' H sliurt ilistiinrc f'nmi tlir walr ■. mid mi slidofiii;,' soim' of llinn, fniiiul 

 flifiii t" III' "it this s|H'cifs ; the next ihiy, on .isitiiij,' ihf Haiiif |ihtit', he was alih' to 

 |M>M'iii't> otht'i'H. Ill travTlliiiK thfiicf tu San Aiitunio, ii, Sc|iti'iiiliri', Iii> t'lnuiii thrsu 

 liiiils rathiT I'Kiiimuii thrniiKhniit thf wlmh- juiirncy ; and hf «)Hfu hIkiI thcin, tiiidiiij; 

 tlii'iii I'Xi'rlh'iit t'atiiiH;. Thcv wcif not sli.v, and wmt in tlock-i ol' fiom tivf to lwrlvi> 

 ill iiuiiiIkt. 'IMh'v dill not ii'.sort to thi- jiooIm. luit lived on the siiiall insrrtH lonnd 



;iiiiiiiih'st th larsi' hi-riia;,'!' whiidi otti-n ki'«"W'h Honn- dlHtaiicr lioiii the water. Near 



\ ntiiria tiiev were very aliuiidaiit, init alter h'aviiii,' tliat town he noticed only a few. 

 At .Sin Antonio In- .saw none, imt was inlorined liy Dr. Ueerinann that they are often 

 loiiiid there in the spriiiK and aiitniun. l>r. Merrill also found this speeies on tin; 

 i;i<i (Iranile, and mentions its fi'ei|iientinK the wiiuc Inealities and oliserviiiK' the saiiio 

 sfiisoiis as the rplaiul IMover, which it closely resenililes in haliits. tlioiij,'h il is niiieh 

 less shy and siis|iicious. 



This species has not lieen detected in California. Imt jir. Cooper is eontident that 

 it (icciirs then-, at least as far south as .Sjiii Francisco. It is found spariiij,'ly north 

 (if the Cohiialiia. .Vceordin;,' to J)r. lleeriiiann. on the interior ]irairies this species 

 feeds on insects, and utters merely a low fici't't, two or three times repeated. It runs 

 swiftly and. if ahirmctl, Hies rapidly, lnakin^' eireiiitoiis sweeps before ali^htiiiK' aKaiii. 

 This author idaiins to have found its nest in Texas, made of (grasses, placed in a 

 hnliiiw ill the uroniid, and eniitainin^,' four v^'^s. Ihit as this liird lueeds in high 

 iiiiiliiirn regions, up to liie very liorders of the .Vretic (tcean, he may have licou 

 iiii>liiken in his iileiililicatiou. 



It occurs in Culia, according to (iiindlaeh, as a winter visitant, and pmlialily in 

 dlher West India islands, it visit.s Trinidad, where, as Leotaud states, it is known 

 astlie Little Vellowleg, and where it makes its appearance in August, departing iii 

 (titiiher. It comes regularly, liut never in great numhers, and it is almost always in 

 ciiiiliniuy with the 7'ofiiiiiis jfiii'l/irs. 



During the winter months it aii[)eais to lie resident in South America as far south 

 ;is the Plata, where it was procured liy Dr. Darwin, Mr. Salviii received an example 

 tnnu liogota, and Natterer olitaiiied t'.xamples in vari<ius parts of Urazil lietwecn No- 

 vcinlier and .Nfandi. ft is also reported from Peru liy Messrs. Salvia and Ctodman. 



ll is not of infreipuMit, although of inegiilar and aeeidental, oecurveiu'e in Kurope. 

 Professor IMasius includes it in his List of tlu' Uirds of Heligoland; and Mr. Varrell 



r ii'ds ipiite a iiumlier of instances in which it has lieen taken in Kngland and Ire- 



laiiil. where it was noticed among flocks of J)unlins and King Tlovers. VieiUot 

 includes it among the liirds of l^'anee, on account of one having lieen taken in Pie- 

 anly. It was first maile known as a s]iecies liy Vieillot, from a s|iecinu'n taken in 

 Louisiana, where it had not lieen noticed liy Audulion. It Avas unknown lioth to Wil- 

 son and to l?onaiiarte ; and the first specimen .seen hy Audulion was one in jio.ssession 

 III' tlie Arctic exjihirer. Captain James Clark Hoss, who had received it from a sailor, 

 liv whom it had lieen procured in the course of one of the numerous inland excursions 

 in the desolate regions from which the jiarty had recently returned, rrom this Mr. 

 Audubon rightly conjecttu'ed that this bird bred within the Arctic Circle. Mr. I'.ernard 

 Kdss mentions having found it on the Mackenzie River, where it was (]nite rare. A 

 single s]ieeimen was noticed by !Mr. Frank L. Tileston in Triiice Edward's Island, 

 where it Avas regarded as very uncommon. 



Mr. Nelson, in his "Notes on the Uirds of Northeastern Illinois," mentions it as a 

 very rare migrant in that regi(jn, only one specimen, so far as known, having been 



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