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habitat, as to deserve our attention herein. We will bear 

 the golden plover in mind. 



When we have gone through all the species which the 

 scientists permit us to call plovers, we shall not yet have 

 found the bird which, of all plovers, or so-called plovers, 

 is perhaps the most generally known the "upland 

 plover." I doubt not that many a shooter who has 

 looked down upon the brown, striated back of this beauti- 

 ful bird, as it lay before him on the grass, has thought 

 how like it looked to the jacksnipe; it will perhaps sur- 

 prise him to know, however, that, according to the scien- 

 tists, the upland plover is not a plover at all, but a snipe! 

 This, although everybody knows that our bird keeps as 

 far away from water as it possibly can! We must, how- 

 ever, meekly submit to our friends the scientists, and 

 read as below: 



Family Scolopacince snipes. Genus 1, Tringa; 

 species Bartramia. ' ' Bartramian sandpiper ' ' ( Audu- 

 bon). ' ' Bartram' s tatler ' ' (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway). 

 Bartramia longicanda (Less.). 



We have now located our second plover, and may call 

 it, if we wish to be prim about it, the Bartramian sand- 

 piper, or Bartram' s tatler. After this, we may, if we 

 wish, forget all about Mr. Bartram' s connection with 

 our bird, or our bird' s connection with the snipe family, 

 and pass on to the more practical consideration of our 

 narrowed theme, which will have to do with the two 

 birds which the upland shooter most often meets, and 

 which will afford him the best sport at plover-shooting. 



THE GOLDEN PLOVER (CTiaradrius marmoratus}. 

 This, the more important of our two birds, is doubtless 

 familiar to most upland shooters of the West and South, 

 and certainly, if one has ever seen it, he will not readily 

 forget the fact, for it is a singularly beautiful and stylish 

 bird. The clean-cut lines of the head and neck, the deep 



