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occur regularly in spring and fall along the Ohio River, but I 
did not meet with it. 
37. COOT. 
Fulica americana Gmel. 
Transient visitant; common along streams and ponds through- 
out the State. Probably breeds along Cheat River and the 
head-waters of Valley River, where I procured a specimen 
August 21. It was very common on the Ohio after October 1. 
38. NORTHERN PHALAROPE., 
Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.). 
Transient visitant; rare. I killed a specimen on the Ohio 
River, north of Parkersburg, Wood County, September 26, 
which was the only one seen. E, L. Day, of Buckhannon, has 
a stuffed specimen which he took along that river. 
39. WOODCOCK. 
Philohela minor (Gmel.). 
Summer resident; common. Generally distributed through- 
out the sections visited. A lover of low, damp places, 
40. WILSON’S SNIPE. 
Gallinago delicata (Ord.). 
Transient visitant. Though tolerably well distributed, they 
are more common along the Ohio, Great Kanawha, and South 
Branch of the Potomac, where they afford fine shooting in 
early spring. I flushed a single bird August 30 in Thomas 
Farnsworth’s meadow, near Buckhannon. 
44. LEAST SANDPIPER. 
Tringa minutilla Vieill. 
Transient visitant. Tolerably common along the principal 
streams after September 24, especially so along the Ohio River. 
42. GREATER YELLOW -LEGS. 
Totanus melanoleucus (Gmel.). . 
Transient visitant ; rare. I observed two birds only of this 
