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Title: North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915
Subjects: Limicola Birds
Publisher: New York, F.P. Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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inAfrica is found from the Mediterranean to the Cape ofGood Hope. In the British islands the Greenshank isa rather wary bird, and can be approached when feed-ing only with difficulty. It is said to resemble theAvocet in the manner of procuring its food, placing thebill upon the surface of the water and swinging it fromside to side, leaving a zigzag line traced upon the mudat the bottom. This species swallows water insectsand their larvae, small beetles, tadpoles, and sometimesfish and frog spawn, worms and small fish. The nestis a depression in the grass in marshy ground, and theeggs are buffy white, spotted with dark brown, withunderlying markings of purplish brown. TOTANUS LITTOREUS. Habitat.—Old World. Accidental in Florida. Breeds in Siberia fromlatitude 6o° to 66°. Adult in Spring Plumage.—Head, neck, scapulars and back, stripedwith black on a gray ground, and with the margin of feathers white; wing-coverts, dark brown, some edged with white ; primaries, blackish brown, 120
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38. European Greenshank. EUROPEAN GREEN SHANK. 121 shaft of first white; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, white, thelatter barred irregularly with black; central tail-feathers gray, barred withdusky, remainder pure white, the two next the central pair barred withblack; entire under surface, white, neck and breast spotted with black ;bill, black; legs and feet, olive green. Length, 14^ inches; culmen, 2% ;wmg> lYz\ tarsus, 2^. Adult in Winter.—Above, pale ash gray, the feathers edged with white;forehead, white; lores and center of forehead, dusky black; under sur-face, pure white. SOLITARY SANDPIPER. THE Solitary Sandpiper, or Wood Tattler, isamigra-*■ tory species in the United States. It breeds withinthe limits of the Union and also farther north, but passesonward, as the darkening skies and mournful sighingwinds of autumn herald the approach of winters cold andstorms, to the far-away districts of the southern conti-nent, where it remains until the recurring season br

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