ORDER LIMICOLiE 



Family Charadriidse' 



Semipalmated Plover; Ring-neck. — /Egialiiis 



semipalmata. 6. 76 



Rare Migrant 



Field marks. — Throat and ring around neck white ; black band 

 across breast and extending around lower neck; sides of 

 head black; upper parts grayish-brown; under parts 

 white; bobs. 



The sweet call of this bird is occasionally heard in some 



of the marshy districts of this County, in Spring or Fall, but 



it is never plentiful. It requires a close observer to establish 



its identity. 



KiLLDEER. — Ox^echus vociferus. 10.50 



Rare Summer Resident 



Field marks. — Constantly utters high-pitched ^ill-dee; two 

 bands of black across breast, divided by white, upper 

 band forming ring about neck; rump reddish-brown; 

 bobs. 



While this Plover has a wide range, it has long been re- 

 garded as extremely rare in this section. In open meadows, 



*A number of these water-birds are fail to identify a Duck until they 



very wary and so seldom seen as to have bagged the bird. Because of 



render it practically impossible to these facts the author, in several in- 



give any field-marks which will aid stances, has merely catalogued seve- 



in identification. The same rule ap- ral of the rarer forms of Sandpipers 



plies to the Ducks. Even hunters o^ and Ducks. These should be studied 



many years experience sometimes in a museum. 



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