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^GTAT.TTIS MELODA CIRCUMCINCTA, KidgW. 



Piping Flover ; Bing Plover. 



Common in Nebraska, and breeds here ; at least, I found two nests in Dakota Connfcy, 

 Nebraska, in July, 1863. Like the preceding, it seems to live wholly on insects. I 

 have examined only the four following : 



Locality. 



Dakota County, ISTebraska 

 "Wayne County, iTebraska. 

 do 



Sarpy County, Nebraska... 



Date. 



May — , 1865 

 July—, 1868 

 do 



Sept.— ,1868 



47 



58 



EUDRoaiiAS MONT ANUS, (Towns.) Harting. 



Mountain Plover. 



Abundant in Nebraska, especially the western portions of the State. The following 

 •dissections show that it lives wholly on insects : 



Locality. 



Dixon County, lifebraska 



do : : , 



do 



do 



do 



Sarpy County, ]S"ebraska 



do 



do 



do 



do 



OtoeCounty, !N"ebraska 



Eicbardson County, Nebraska. 



Buffalo County, Nebraska 



do 



do 



do 



Date. 



July 



Sept. 

 Aug. 

 June 

 Sept. 

 Sept. 



June 

 Sept! 



— , 1865 

 do . .. 

 — , 1866 

 — , 1807 

 — , 1868 

 — , 1872 

 -, 1874 



do 



do 



do 



— , 1875 



do 



- , 1876 



do 



do 



do..... 







27 



30 



31 



25 





53 



54 



6 



59 



3 





62 



.57 



2 



CO 





58 



4 



51 



9 



63 





61 





56 



3 



51 



8 



59 



6 



62 





Family RECUEVIROSTEID^ : AvopETS. 



EeCURVIROSTEA AMERICANA, Gm. 



Avocet. 



Pound only abundantly in the vicinity of ponds, lakelets, and streams of water 

 Two that I examined in September, 1874, near Bellevue, Sarpy County, had about an 

 equal number of locusts and other insects in their stomachs. Obtaining their food gen- 

 erally in and near water, they naturally would capture fewer locusts than the preced- 

 ing species. OuQ that I obtained from Richardson County in September, 1873; had 71 

 insects of various kinds in its stomach. 



