THE JERSEY COAST. boo 
“Oh, pshaw!” responded Bill, in intense dis- 
gust, “I thought it meant a whole bookful of 
things.” 
“The sandpipers, however, come under the family 
of snipes, and are called tringw. Among these are 
enumerated the robin-snipe and the grass-plover, as 
I told you before, the black-breast, the krieker, or 
short-neck, and several scarcer varieties. The yelp- 
ers and yellow-legs, the tiny teeter, and the willet 
are tattlers, genus totanus, while the marlin is the 
godwit limosa. The sickle-bills, jacks, and futes are 
curlews, genus numenius.” ; 
“‘ And now that you have got through,” grumbled 
Bill again, “Scan you whistle a snipe any better or 
shoot him any easier? Do you know why he stools 
well in a south-westerly wind, why one stools better 
than another, or why any of them stool at all? Do 
you know why he flies after a storm, or why some 
go in flocks and others don’t, or why there is usually 
a flight on the fifteenth and twenty-fifth of August ? 
When books tell us these things, I shall think more 
of the writers.” 
“These matters are not easy to find out; even 
you gunners, who have been on the bay all your 
lives, where your fathers lived before you, do not 
know. [But now tell us what other sport you have 
here.” 
“Qn the mainland there are a good many Eng- 
lish snipe in spring, while in the fall we catch blue- 
fish and shoot ducks. The black ducks and teal 
will soon be along; but ever since the inlet was 
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