292 POULTRY AND WILD BIRDS 
228 American Woodcock. Very rare 249 Marbled Godwit. M.andS.R. 
S.R. 251  Hudsonian Godwit. Rare M. 
230 Wilson Snipe. M. and S.R. 254 Greater Yellow-legs. M. 
232 Long-billed Dowitcher. M. and 255 Yellow-legs. M. 
S.R. 256 Solitary Sandpiper. Common 
233 Stilt Sandpiper. M. M. and S.R. 
239 Pectoral Sandpiper. M. and S. 258 Willet. S.R. 
R. 258a Western Willet. S.R. 
240 White-rumped Sandpiper. Rare 262 Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Rare 
M. M. 
241 Baird Sandpiper. M. 264 Long-billed Curlew. S.R. 
246 Semipalmated Sandpiper. M. 265 Hudsonian Curlew. M. 
and S.R. 266 Eskimo Curlew. M. 
248 Sanderling. M. 
Plover Family. — Shore birds with bills too short to be useful for 
probing. They have round heads, short necks, plump bodies, long 
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KOLLDEER TURNSTONE 
wings, and rather short legs for waders. The Killdeer and some of the 
others frequent uplands as much as shores and marshes. 
273 Killdcer. Length 103 inches. 
The most abundant and most widely distributed bird of this group; 
found on uplands as well as near the water. Is quite noisy, and easily 
recognized by the shrill call-notes which he keeps repeating, ‘‘ killdeer 
killdeer, killdeer,”’ though often we hear only the last syllable. Back is 
brown; lower parts white; two dark bands across the breast, the upper 
