The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 72National Geographic Society., 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 204
Purple Sandpiper Arquatella maritima Average Length , Nine Inches The purple sandpiper is perhaps the hardiest of the whole tribe , passing the winter even as far north as southern Greenland ; only a few venture south of Montauk Point ...
Purple Sandpiper Arquatella maritima Average Length , Nine Inches The purple sandpiper is perhaps the hardiest of the whole tribe , passing the winter even as far north as southern Greenland ; only a few venture south of Montauk Point ...
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... Sandpiper Pisobia fuscicollis Average Length , Seven and One - half Inches After nesting from northern Alaska to Baffin Island , the white - rumped sandpiper mi- grates for the winter to Paraguay , southern Patagonia , and the Falkland ...
... Sandpiper Pisobia fuscicollis Average Length , Seven and One - half Inches After nesting from northern Alaska to Baffin Island , the white - rumped sandpiper mi- grates for the winter to Paraguay , southern Patagonia , and the Falkland ...
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... Sandpiper Micropalama himantopus Average Length , Eight and One - quarter Inches To be able to distinguish the stilt sandpiper in its fall plumage from the lesser yellow - legs , and the western sandpiper from the semi- palmated ...
... Sandpiper Micropalama himantopus Average Length , Eight and One - quarter Inches To be able to distinguish the stilt sandpiper in its fall plumage from the lesser yellow - legs , and the western sandpiper from the semi- palmated ...
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Algonquian Indians | 57 |
Soaring Heights of New Hampshire Attract | 73 |
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