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molested until it became generally known that it was one of 
our best table birds, and consequently brought a good price 
in the city markets. From that time on it has been slaugh- 
tered both spring and fall in great numbers, and this is still 
carried on wherever the birds exist in any numbers, and 
especially during the southern migrations. The abominable 
practice of hunting with dogs for market during the 
breeding season no longer pays in Wisconsin, and, thanks co 
our spring shooting laws, has been to a great extent stopped, 
but entirely too late to save more than a remnant of the flocks 
of "upland plover" which once nested within our borders. 
Try unites su b i n li< ol I i s (Vieill.). BIFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
Rare migrant. During a residence of fifty years in south- 
ern Wisconsin Thure Kumlien procured but a single specimen, 
killed on a prairie in Dane County late in September, 1845. 
On September 10, 1802, a single young male was killed by 
L. Kumlien on Rock Prairie, Rock County. Another young 
male was shot by Mr. Henry Skavlem at Lake Koshkonong, 
and is now preserved in the collection of the club house on the 
"Carcajou Farms" at that place. Dr. Hoy (1852) gives the 
species as "quite common from September 15 to October 10. 
Never met in spring.' 1 Willard (1) gives it as a regular migrant 
in Brown County. It is unfortunate that these writers have 
left only the bare statements as above. This species "should" 
pass through the prairie regions of Wisconsin during spring 
and fall migrations, but it certainly does not, except very rarely, 
in the central parts of the state. Possibly more frequent in the 
western counties. We consider it one of our rarest "shore 
birds.'' To be looked for in prairie regions only, in such 
localities as are frequented by the Bartramian sandpiper. 
Aetitis macnlaria (Linn.). SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
A very common summer resident, arriving late in April of 
an average year, and remaining until quite late in autumn. 
Nests from the southern part of the state to Lake Superior in 
all suitable localities, and almost any situation will suit if near 
water-. Its nests are the most easily found of any of the waders, 
in fact it seems to display very little ingenuity in concealing 
the eggs. Does not appear to have diminished in numbers to 
any great extent during the past thirty years. 
1. List of Birds of Brown Co., Wis., Acad. Arts and Science, Vol, VT. 
