CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 5 



Distribution 6 



Migration 10 



North American shorebirds 14 



Red phalarope 14 



Northern phalarope 16 



Wilson phalarope 18 



Avocet 19 



Black-necked stilt 20 



European woodcock ■. 21 



Woodcock 21 



European snipe 23 



Wilson snipe 23 



Great snipe 26 



Dowitcher 26 



Long-billed dowitcher 28 



Stilt sandpiper 29 



Knot 31 



Purple sandpiper 33 



Aleutian sandpiper 34 



Pribilof sandpiper 34 



Sharp-tailed sandpiper 34 



Pectoral sandpiper ; 35 



White-rumped sandpiper 37 



Baird sandpiper 39 



Least sandpiper 41 



Long-toed stint 42 



Cooper sandpiper * 43 



Dunlin 43 



Red-backed sandpiper 43 



Curlew sandpiper 45 



Spoon-bill sandpiper 45 



Semipalmated sandpiper 46 



Western sandpiper 47 



Sanderling 48 



Marbled godwit 50 



Pacific godwit 51 



Hudsonian godwit 52 



Black-tailed godwit 53 



Green-shank 54 



Common red-shank 54 



Greater yellow-legs 54 



Yellow-legs 56 



Solitary sandpiper 58 



Western solitary sandpiper 60 



Green sandpiper 61 



Wood sandpiper 61 



Willet 61 



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