The signs Cancer to Sagittarius are western, sovereign, right, or direct signs.
The Dowitcher is one of the best known of our coast birds.
The range of the Dowitcher is limited to the eastern part of North America.
Inland it is replaced by the Long-billed Dowitcher (Macrorhamphus scolopaceus), which has a longer bill and is a little larger.
This species of the dowitcheris a western bird, breeding well to the north and migrating south to Mexico.
Cooke (1912) writes: The nest and eggs of the dowitcher are not yet known to science, nor has the species been seen in summer at any place where it was probably breeding.
The dowitcher has many times been taken outside of what appears to be its normal range, in fact there are so many records for the interior that it seems certain individuals regularly follow the flyway of the Mississippi Valley.
The dowitcher when standing is a fat, chunky bird, with short greenish legs and a very long bill, with which it probes perpendicularly.
Now that the dowitcher has been definitely shown to breed in Alberta, these records look authentic.
Although all shore birds can swim, the dowitcher seems to be especially adept at it.
Evidently the dowitcher does not breed in any numbers, on the eastern coast of Ungava.
The broad white stripe over the eye is conspicuous in any plumage and the whitish tail shows in flight, as different from the whitish triangle on the rump and back of the dowitcher or the white rump of the yellow-legs.
Evidently the old dowitcher had led these young ones across the hill by simply hovering over or in front of them and calling.
The breeding range of the eastern dowitcher is imperfectly known or not known at all, unless we include the birds which breed in Alberta under this form, where in my opinion they belong.
In this way in about half an hour the dowitcher and I had crossed the hill from one marsh to another, a distance of about 600 yards.
Occurrences of the long-billed dowitcher outside of its normal range must, of necessity be based upon the evidence of specimens, as it is frequently confused with the more common dowitcher of the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Florida.
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