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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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st week in May they begin to construct their nests, which are at firstslightly formed of a small quantity of old grass, scarcely sufiicient to keep the eggsfrom the wet marsh. As they lay and sit, however, either dreading the rise of the tides,or for some other purpose, the nest is increased in height with dry twigs of a shrub verycommon in the marshes, roots of the salt grass, seaweed, and various other substances,the whole weighing between two and three pounds. This habit of adding new materialto the nest after the female begins sitting is common to almost all other birds that breedin the marshes. The eggs are four in number of a dark, yellowish clay color thicklymarked with large blotches of black. These nests are often placed within fifteen ortwenty yards of each other; but the greatest harmony seems to prevail among theproprietors. These birds today may be regarded as virtually extinct in New Jersey.All those representatives of the race that come to this region to breed ap- (394)
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i BLACK-NECKED STILTOrder—Li MicoL/t Family—RECuRviROSTRiCyt Genus—Hi MANTOPUS Species—Mexican us National Association of Audubon Societies Black-necked Stilt 395 parently have been either killed or driven elsewhere. Mr. Witmer Stone in hisbook, The Birds of New Jersey, gives but a single record of the Stilt havingbeen seen in that state during the past fifty years; this one was shot by agunner at Stone Harbor, April 27, 1894. The Stilt seems equally rare at otherpoints along the Atlantic coast. In Eatons Birds of New York, the authorrelates that the latest New York specimens were taken fifty or sixty yearsago on Long Island, some of which are now in the State Museum, the Ameri-can Museum, and the collection of the Long Island Historical Society. Iknow of only one record for North Carolina during the past twenty years.A specimen was shot at Nags Head in Dare County, North Carolina, in June,1900, and is today preserved in the Museum of Trinity College at Durham,North Carolina.

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