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USEL'UL BIRDS 
THE GOLDEN PLOVER. 
A l)ird also uncommon, in that it is liere irregularly during 
the migrations, remaining with us only a short time, and now, we 
believe, rapidly (lisaj)pearing. The illustration is given here as 
representing the Killdeer of Ringneck Plover, common in low- 
Iving fields and frecjuently seen al)Out the l)arnvard, easily recog- 
nized not only 1)y its rather plaintive note 1)ut particularlv 1)v the 
black l)and across the white Irreast, consumes the larvae of many 
injurious insects found in pastures and meadows: it eats wire- 
worms, caterpillars, grasshop])ers and crickets and the eggs of 
the two latter. 
Addle with us, the food of the Golden Plover consists chiefly 
of grasshop])ers and other insects, ddigether with the Upland 
I’lover or h'ield I Mover, another vanishing Irird, it is protected in 
Minnesota until ldl8. 
