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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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btain a few of thebirds at least. I took five Marbled Godwit and sawa lone wader in the midst of one of theboggy pools, which, to my surprise,was a handsome plumaged HudsonianGodwit. I disturbed none of the Phal-arope but it is quite evident they werenot nesting at the time we visited theplace. The Godwits were extremely fat, fullplumaged, but apparently non-breedingbirds This is the third time I have chanc-ed upon small flocks of shore birdsduring June but in each instance thespecies were without either young oreggs so far as our extensive observa-tions went. In all probability many ofour waders do not breed until the sec-ond season and are attracted to certainplaces where their particular food isabundant and the community is im-mune from disturbance by either theagriculturist or the shooter. Mr. E. W. Nelson, one of the pioneerornithologists of the Great Lake re-gion used to cover the Chicago areafrom the Calumet marshes southeast,north to the Skokie and blind river THE OOLOGIST 217
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c5 *- o ns 5 218 rilED OOLOGIST sloughs on the State line between Illi-nois and Wisconsin. He describes Wil-sons Phalarope as out-numbering allother shore birds, the Spotted Sand-piper not excluded. This delicate lit-tle variety still inhabits our localmarshes but in very limited numbers.An unusual wet spring will possiblydetain, a small colony of half a dozenpair and they are soon divided intotwo groups. The more conspicuousflock consists wholly of the brightlystreaked female and they divide theirtime between the shallow lake sidesand the muddy flats. The males arestrictly at home and were one to judgethem from- their behavior and plum-age he would by all means considerthem not only figuratively but literal-ly the mother birds. A few years ago I found four nestsin one little area and the little birdswould vacate the eggs before I was insight of the nests. Their manner offlight at the time was suggestive ofthe Black Tern but their note of warn-ing was a feeble attempt at offeringany p

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