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Title: Distribution and migration of North American shore birds. --
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916
Subjects: Limicolae Birds
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries

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rom July 30 to November 10. As wouldbe expected, most of the specimens are from near the Atlantic coast;only 5 occurred in the interior, the westernmost being the one atEnglish Lake, Indiana. The breeding range of the ruff is from Great Britain to centralSiberia and north to the Arctic coast. The bird winters in Burma,India, and to the southern part of Africa. It has wandered east inAsia to Japan and the Commander Islands, but has not yet been de-tected on the western coast of America. Upland Plover. Bariramia longicauda (Bechst.)- Breeding range.—The upland or field plover, sometimes called theBartramian sandpiper, is one of the few shorebirds that nest commonlyin the Mississippi Valley. Early in the settlement of this region,much more than half the upland plovers probably nested withinthe boundaries of the United States. The center of abundance duringthe breeding season was the prairie region from Kansas to Manitoba. Bui. 35, Biological Survey, U. S Dept. of Agriculture. Plate II.
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UPLAND PLOVER. 65 The numbers were not greatly diminished so long as this region wasused for stock purposes, but recently the birds have rapidly decreased.At the present time the species breeds south to southern Oregon(Merrill); northern Utah (Ridgway); northern Colorado (Rockwell),central Oklahoma (Merrill), southern Missouri (Prior), southernIndiana (Butler), northern Virginia (Grinnan) and central Maryland(Miller). The summer range extends north to southern Maine(Norton), southern Ontario (Renfrew; Clarke), and southern Michi-gan (Wood). Then it bends far to the northward through centralWisconsin (Kumlien and Hollister) to central Keewatin (Cape Eskimo;Preble), southern Mackenzie (Fort Smith; Preble), northern Yukon(MDougall), and to the Kowak River in northwestern Alaska(Townsend). Stragglers are not uncommon in the Maritime Prov-inces and have occurred in Newfoundland (Reeks) and to Godbout,Quebec (Merriam). The species is not common east of Michigan norwest of the Rocky Mountain

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