Excerpt from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7: February, 1900 R. Livingstone described a relative of this bird which he met with in Africa as a most plaguey sort of public-spirited individual that follows you everywhere, flying overhead, and is most persever ing in his attempts to give fair warn ing to all animals within hearing to flee from the approach of danger, a characteristic which has caused the killdeer to bev an object of dislike to the gunner. It is usually the first to take alarm at his approach and starts up all other birds in the vicinity by its loud cries. It can run with such swift ness that, according to Audubon, to run like a killdeer has in some parts of the country passed into a proverb. It is also active on the wing and mounts at pleasure to a great height in the air, With a strong and rapid flight, which can be continued for a long distance. In the love season it performs various kinds of evolutions while on the wing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.