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noisy and well known species. They were on the meadows 
below Point Pleasant, near the Ohio River. 
43. SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 
Totanus solitarius (Wils.). 
Transient visitant ; rare. This bird does not frequent open 
meadows, as does the last named species, but inhabits unfre- 
quented low woods and swampy places covered with alders. 
It may be more common during the spring migrations than in 
the fall. I observed a few near Huntington October 14. 
AA, BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 
Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.). 
Summer resident; tolerably common near Buckhannon dur- 
ing the month of August, but more plentiful after September 
7. I found it very shy and exceedingly hard to approach» It 
frequents cultivated fields and uplands, and is known in all sec- 
tions as Upland Plover. 
. 45. SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
Actitis macularia (Linn.). 
Summer resident ; common along all streams and ponds. It 
is known as the Little Tilt-up. 
46. KILLDEER PLOVER. 
4Egialitis vocifera (Linn.). 
Summer resident; common. Tolerably abundant during mi- 
grations, It is said that a few occasionally remain through the 
wintef season along the Great Kanawha and in the Ohio Val- 
ley. Their chief resorts are newly-plowed fields and banks of 
streams and meadows. In some localities the Killdeer does 
much good by feeding on grasshoppers, 
AT. BOB-WHITE; QUAIL. 
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Colinus virginianus (Linn.). 
Resident ; common; abundant in a few favored localities. 
Oertain farmers informed me that Quail are very destructive to 
their grape crops, and also to wild grapes, and maintain that 
