CHAPTER XII 
THE SHORE PATROL 
There is a Power whose care 
Teaches thy %vay along that pathless eoast. 
Bryant. 
T certain seasons of the year our shores bordering on 
/-A ocean and great lake are carefully patrolled by the 
crews of the Government Life-saving Service. And 
there are seasons, too, when a feathered host is on patrol, 
suffering few castaways — of a certain class — to be long 
neglected. Science has a concise and suggestive name for 
them, — Limicolse, dwellers by the shore. It is a varied and 
numerous company, represented by forty species in eastern 
North America. Though one of these, the Woodcock, prefers 
the swampy thickets, and his cousin, Wilson’s Snipe, the 
