Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 110
riters tell of flocks of countless millionswhich darkened the sky and required days topass a given point. They nested in great colo-nies, every available tree over a wide extent offorest being occupied by from several to as manyas forty or fifty pairs. As late as 1876, a nest-ing in Michigan… … ESKIMO CURLEW. as extinct or on the very verge of extinction.This was a large snipe-like bird, and was muchsought by gunners; they called it the dough-bird.It nested in the arctic regions and wintered inSouth America, so that in the United States itwas found only during its migrations. The Carolina…
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