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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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earance, but up the surface of a pool or even on the bosom of the deep. As itswims it nods with every stroke. This Phalarope belongs to the shore birds and to a family that contains butthree known species. Two of these are sea birds. The other, Wilsons phalarope,is an inhabitant of the interior of North America. Their feet are webbed, andusually the two marine forms, or sea snipe, as they are sometimes called, migratein flocks far from land. Mr. Chapman says: I have seen it in great numbersabout one hundred miles off Barnegat, New Jersey, in May. For several hoursthe steamer passed through flocks, which were swimming on the ocean. Theyarose in a body at our approach, and in close rank whirled away to the right orleft in search of new feeding grounds. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the most beautiful of ouraquatic birds. All its motions are graceful. It possesses a quiet dignity andelegance while swimming in search of food, which it frequently obtains by thrust- 886
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inj, its bill inl(» the water, in this inauiicr it ^Jl>taill^ a Iav^v nimilur of marineanimals and llics that may be on the surface of the walir. \\ bni on the shore itmay l)e seen waihn^ and swimming in ponds near the oj^ast. Dr. Cones wrote in an interesting^ maimer of this bird. 1 le said that the Xorth-ern Ihalarope is a curious comjjound of a wader and swimmer. Take one of ourcommon little sandpipers, fit it for sea by makiu)^ oars of its feet, and launch itupon the great deep, you have a Xorthern Thalarope. Vou may see a flotillaof these little animated cockle-boats riding lightly on the waves anywhere offthe coast of New ICngland. Its habits at the mating season are most interesting, and no words can betterdescribe them than those of Mr. K. W. Xelson: As the season comes on whenthe tlamos of lo\e mount high, the dull-colored male moves about the pool, ap-jxirently heedless of the surrounding fair ones. Such stoical indifference usuallyapi)ears too much for the feelings of s

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