A Lincolnshire Mud=flat 



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of their class. Tt is more reasonable, surely, to suppose that, 

 retuniint>- southwards froui their eireunipolar ])reeding'-groinids 

 (and it seems customary for all this class of birds to nest 

 at the farthest northern limit of their rantre), they lost 

 their way or became mixed with Hocks of similar habits 

 which were l)()und for the European route instead of that 

 through the American Continent. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull (^imjl-\ture_) caught in I-'ligh i-.nli. 



How else can the presence be accounted for of so many 

 of this kind of bird ? — the Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers, 

 the Pectoral Sandpiper, Bartram's Sandpiper, Bonaparte's 

 Sandpiper, the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Eskimo Curlew, 

 Red-breasted Snipe, Yellowshank, American Stint, Kill-deer 

 Plover, and I^csscr (Tolden Plover — ])irds which usually 

 ranoe throui^h tiie entire length of the great ^Vmerican 



