SAND DUNES AND SALT MARSHES 



a man with binoculars in the face, for he put 

 about and soon disappeared in the morning 

 mists, leaving, however, three beautiful speci- 

 mens dead on the beach. They were not 

 wasted. The knot in the full nuptial dress is 

 a handsome bird with breast like that of a 

 robin and a steel gray back. In this stage it 

 is called a red-breasted plover, while the fall 

 birds in winter dress and the young with their 

 white breasts and bluish gray backs are locally 

 known as " blue plover." By these marks is 

 the knot known, but especially by his short 

 legs and squatty form. 



The dunlin, with his curved bill, is a marked 

 bird in the spring, on account of his bright 

 chestnut back and black belly, while in the 

 fall he retires into obscurity with a mouse- 

 colored back and white under-parts. 



One would hardly connect the family of 

 Napoleon with a sandpiper, but the nephew 

 of Napoleon the First, Charles Lucien Bona- 

 parte, was an ardent worker in American or- 

 nithology, and the white-rumped sandpiper is 

 also known as Bonaparte's sandpiper. It is 

 not much larger than a peep, but its white 

 rump, noticeable in flight, furnishes a ready 

 means of identification. 



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