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DWELLERS IN NESTS. 



PART VIII. 



The Avocet The Black-winged Stilt The Phalaropes The 

 Water Ouzel The British Scolopacidae The Dunlin The 

 Redshank The Curlew The Little Stint The Dusky 

 Redshank The Whimbrel The Curlew Sandpiper The 

 Black-tailed Godwit The Ruff The Common Sandpiper 

 The Knot The Sanderling The Green Sandpiper 

 The Purple Sandpiper The Bar-tailed Godwit The 

 Greenshank. 



THE avocet, although now excessively rare in 

 this country, was formerly plentiful in the Eastern 

 counties, and to be met with in other parts of the 

 kingdom.* The cause of this, diminution is stated 

 by one author to be partly due to the reclamation 

 of fenland, but chiefly to the especial demand by 

 dressers of artificial fishing-flies. The Rev. C. 

 Johns says : ' This bird has become so rare, that 

 having recently applied to two several collectors 



* Since writing the above, a friend tells me of an avocet 

 which he saw and shot at in Devon, within the last few years. 

 The distance was too great for him to secure the bird, which 

 he had stalked for some time. 



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