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and the pace that those little legs can go, when 

 they do their best, is amazing. It has a charming 

 way of ever and anon stopping suddenly still and 

 looking steadily at you, with head held very 

 slightly aside, seeming to try to read right 

 through you, and discover if you are friend or 

 foe. When it flies its wings are seen to be very 

 sharp and pointed, and bearing some resemblance 

 to a snipe's — a bird it is often made to do duty for 

 by those romancers, the native gunners, who tempt 

 the uninitiated to accompany them for snipe- 

 shooting, and assure the new-comer these poor 

 little Plover are Snipe — " Egyptian " Snipe. 



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