XXVII. FAMILY CHARADRIID2E, (THE PLOVERS).
Genus Charadriue. Golden plover. Migratory, fre quent; insectivoroue: feeds on insects, worms, grass hoppers, email shell fish, and sometimes a few seeds and berriee according to season.
Genue degialitie. Killdeer plover. Resident, or nearly so. frequent; insectivorous; feeds on various insects, grasehoppers, snails, and worme.
Genus Sgualarola. Black-bellied plover. Summer resi dent, rare: insectivorous; feeds on insects, water snails, worms, and in season on small berries.
XXVIII. FA]kfrLY SCOLOPACIDIE, (THE SNIPES).Xxviii. FA]kfrLY SCOLOPACIDIE, (THE SNIPES).
Genus Philohda. Woodcock. Resident, frequent; in sectivorous. The food of the woodcock consists princi pally of earth worms and such other insects and worms as occur under fallen leaves and in soft bogs, which it probes with its long elender bill. and which is so sensitive at the tip as to enable the bird to discover and drag out its prey.
Genus Gatiinago Wilson's snipe. Snmmer resident, or very rare in winter; ineectivorous. They continually
bore in inarshes, like the woodcock, for food, which appears to consist of worms, leaches, and water spiders. Genus Gambetta. Tell-tale tattler. Summer resident, not frequent; insectivorous; affects marshy meadows and margins of streams. Feeds on small fish, insects, worms, water enails, etc.—Yellowshanks tattler. Summer reei dent, frequent; insectivorous; nearly related to the last. Feeds on fishes, shrimps, worms, and aquatic insects. Genus lihyaeophilue. Solitary sandpiper. Summer resident; insectivorous. Feeds on caterpillare, Nvater insects, spiders, etc., etc.; mostly found about muddy ponds and ditches.
Genus Tringoides . Gray-spotted sandpiper. Summer resident, common; insectivorous. Feeds on insects and worms, which it often seeks by probing the in arsh mud. Genus Actiturus. Bartram's sandpiper. Summer resi dent, frequent; insectivorous. Feeds on coleopterous insects, crickets, grasshoppers, and sometimes on the seeds of grasses.