Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-07-22
n length: bill and feet light blue,

barred with dark brown; lower back,
olive gray; wing coverts, gray; ventres,
dusky; throat, band over eyes, breast,
sides and tail coverts white, with undu-
lating dusky lines. The eggs are four in
number either greenish white or brown
| ish olive, marked with spots OF lumber
brown
Our most familiar plover is the k,ldeer.
Forehead below the black band between
the eyes, eyebrows and entire under
parts, white; upper parts, yellowish or
reddish brown; II ring around the breast
and a broader one around the neck Of jet
black; wings dusky, marked with white;
dark tail, shading into black towards the
reddish and white tips, and thanked with
| light red, white and dusky, bright yell
lowish red rump aud tail coyerts. The
four eggs are clay colored, thickly spotted
with dark brown and lumber and very
pointed as are The eggs of the entire fam
lily. The nest is Slight depres- on in
the ground.
The piping ployer is found on clean
sand beaches ON the ocean Shore but
never on any Of our rivers. 1t is about
seven inches long, being one of the
smallest Waders. Upper parts pale brown
ash; neck, forehead and under parts
white; streak of black across the fore
head and ring OF same around the neck
/ he four eggs are pale buff, speck lied with
black and purpIish gray. The eggs in the
/ nests of ali the family are found with the
! small end towards the centre of the nest.
These are all OF the family that are
known to breed in Maine. Besides these
are their cousins, which constitute bat
talions in that mighty army, which
passes to the far north in spring and re-
turns to the south in autumn, that are,
as it were, he advance guard.
LATE SUMMER ARRIVALS.
About the last OF August the dowitcher
arrives. 1t is about twelve inches long,
color dark brown; feathers edged with
red under parts dark red mixed with
dusk; tail and coverts banded with black
and white. The knot, gray back or
robin snipe is ten and one half inches
long and marked like Others of>the family
above, but may be distinguis he'd by its
breast OF brownish red which fades into
white on he TANKS
The purple sandpiper is a winter resi-
dent about the rocky shores OF the coast
/ About nine and one-ha.f inches long
head, neck and breast du-ky gray; wings
md tsil dnaL,v the farmer feat l.rs tinpel
with white; belly white; back, dark
glossy purple, tipped with gray In this
piuuaEe the bird : very beautiful.
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j. some nine inches tono. manner ports are
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uottI.d v,ith black a,,c white. a natch Of
bIacl an tho holly
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.evap and ona-b.If inches Iong witb
shor, straight grooved hin MINER narts
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