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1906. A single bird was observed May 25, 1905. Two speci- 

 mens have been taken by Bryant at Cooley Lake and Lake City 

 respectively. Four birds were seen by Judge Guinotte on a 

 sandbar near Sibley on November 2, 1917. 



NuMENius BOEBALis (J. B. Forster) . Eskimo Curlew. 

 Formerly common spring migrant, now probably extinct. 



This curlew, like the Golden Plover, migrates south over the 

 Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia in the fall, only a few choos- 

 ing the inland route at that season, but all return in the spring 

 up the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. No specimen of this 

 once common game bird has been seen in this vicinity for many 

 years and it is now considered nearly, if not quite, extinct. 



Family Chaeadeiidae. Plovers. 



iSquataeola SQUATAEOLA (Linn.). 



Squataeola SQUATAEOLA CYNOSUEAE Thayer & Bangs. Pro- 

 posed October, 1916. Black-bellied Plover. 

 Very rare and irregular migrant. 



This bird was a not uncommon migrant prior to 1890; it has 

 now become so rare that many years pass without one being 

 seen. None had been seen or reported for five years prior to 

 1916, when Tindall killed one out of a small flock on the Mis- 

 souri River near Courtney on November 13th. 



Chaeadeids dominicus dominicus (MuUer). Golden Plover. 

 Not rare migrant in spring; very rare in autumn. 



Like the Upland Plover, the Golden Plover was formerly 

 taken in great numbers on the prairie regions of western Jack- 

 son County. It is now greatly reduced in numbers, though 

 small flocks are still seen during the latter part of April and 

 rarely in October and November, as the bulk of the flight in 

 autumn takes the Atlantic route. 



It is to be looked for on the uplands as well as about marshes 

 and swampy places. 



OxTECHUs vociFERUs (Linn.). Killdeer. 



Common migrant and not uncommon summer resident. 



The early arrivals from the south appear from the middle 

 to the last of February and a month later the bulk of the mi- 



