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to establish my rcputiition for ever, witli an air of 

 deep leaniing, I eoininencctl : 



"In the first place, you are mistaken in including 

 among plovers the grass or grey-plover, as it is 

 connnonly called ; it is not a plover at all " 



"Oh! that is nonsense," tiiey burst forth unani- 

 mously ; " you don't know what you're talking 

 about." 



Never was a growing reputation more suddenly 

 nipped. Instantly reduced to a state of meekness, 

 and only too glad to save a shred of character, I 

 mildly suggested that Giraud's work on the birds 

 of Long Island was in my valise, and probably con- 

 tained the desired information. 



"Well," said one, " let's hear what he says." 



So I procured the book and read as follows : 



" ' Tkinga Baetramia— Wilson. 



eartram's sandpiper. 

 Bartrara's Sandpiper, Tringa Bartramia, Wil Amer. Orn. 



Totanus Bartramius Bonap. Syn. 

 Totanus Barifamius Bartram Tntler, Su. & Eich. Bartra- 



mian Tatler, Nutt. Man. 



Bartramian Sandpiper. Totanus Bartramius And. Orn. 



Biog.' 



" After giving the specific character, and a spirited 

 account of the well-known manner of shooting them 

 from a wagon, which is not followed with any other 

 bird, as you well know, he proceeds as follows : 



"'In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, 

 and on the Shinnecock and Hempstead riains,Long 



