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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ized as the piping plover. May 30, 1911, we plodded through the sand among thescant evergreen and sand dunes overlooking the southshore of Lake Michigan, a desolate country, too clean andbarren of plant and animal life to satisfy many birds.Small colonies of bank swallows were perforating the littleperpendicular bluffs, and about the old pine stubs thewhite-bellied swallows hovered, while occasionally a herringgull patrolled the beach, as a scavenger. A metallic peepcame from the base of a sand dune, and with field glassesI carefully scanned the vast waste. A piping plover flittedacross the beach, circling over the pebbles and driftwood,and squatted in the center of a little elevation just back ofa sheltering log. As I approached the sitting bird, sherapidly ran in a wide circle, joining her mate. Both weresolicitous and approached me in a distressed attitude, plain-tively protesting at my intrusion, by calling in their mellownotes which were so in keeping with the bleak surroundings.
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kSH m ami WT mi t 3 **■■ •7^v»£ - 1 SHORE BIRDS 149 The eggs rested in a bare hollow of the white sand, withtheir four points together, dainty little clay-colored shells,minutely dotted with purple and dark brown. THE SNOWY PLOVER* The Snowy Plover is found chiefly west of the RockyMountains, and is a constant resident along the Califor-nia coast. It nests along the sandy beaches of the ocean.Mr. N. S. Goss found it nesting on the salt plains alongthe Cimarron River in the Indian Territory, the north-ern limits of which extend into southwestern Kansas. Thesebirds are described as being very much lighter in colorthan those of California. Four eggs are usually laid, inground color, pale buff or clay color, with blackish-brownmarkings. Mr. Cory says the nest is a mere depression inthe sand. He says also that the snowy plover is found inwinter in many of the Gulf States, and is not uncommonin northwestern Florida. When the female snowy plover is disturbed on the nest,she will run

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