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perfectly white belly, dusky-green legs; bright brown 

 and black above, with duskier wings. When it flew, its 

 wings, which wei'e uniformly dark, hung down much, 

 and I noticed no white above, and heard no note. 



UPLAND PLOVER 



June 15, 1860. As I stood there I heard that peculiar 

 hawk-like (for rhythm) but more resonant or clanging 

 kind of scream which I may have heard before this 

 year, plover-like, indefinitely far, — over the Clamshell 

 plain. After proceeding half a dozen rods toward the 

 hill, I heard the familiar willet note of the upland 

 plover and, looking up, saw one standing erect — like 

 a large telltale, or chicken with its head stretched up 

 — on the rail fence. After a while it flew off southwest 

 and low, then wheeled and went a little higher down 

 the river. Of pigeon size, but quick quivering wings. 

 Finally rose higher and flew more or less zigzag, as 

 if uncertain where it would alight, and at last, when 

 almost out of sight, it pitched down into a field near 

 Cyrus Hubbard's. 



SPOTTED SANDPIPER; PEETWEET 



Aug. 22, 1853. A peetweet flew along the shore and 

 uttered its peculiar note. Their wings appear double as 

 they fly by you, while their bill is cumbrously carried 

 pointing downward in front. 



June 14, 1855. Looked at the peetweet's nest which 

 C* found yesterday. It was very difficult to find again 

 in the broad open meadow ; no nest but a mere hollow 



^ [C. in Thoreau's Journal always stands for his friend Channing.] 



