BRITISH SCOLOPACIDJE 297 



be exposed to persecution, even if its guilt 

 were ever so strongly established. The bad 

 name which attaches to many birds is but too 

 readily accepted merely as an excuse for their 

 slaughter. 



The list of British Scolopacidse, to which belong 

 the avocet, black-winged stilt, the phalaropes, 

 woodcock, solitary, common, and jack snipe, and 

 to which reference has already been made, em- 

 braces also the following : Eleven sandpipers, 

 three stints, the greenshank, yellowshank, red- 

 shank, and dusky redshank, two godwits, the 

 sanderling, knot, dunlin, ruff, curlew, and two 

 whimbrels. 



The list is too numerous for me to refer to each 

 individual variety, it may, however, be useful to 

 the reader to give it in detail : 



Avocet. Curlew sandpiper. 

 Black-winged stilt. Purple sandpiper. 

 Gray phalarope. Pectoral sandpiper. 

 Red-necked phala- Bonaparte's sand- 

 Woodcock, [rope. piper. [piper. 

 Solitary snipe. Buff-breasted sand- 

 Common snipe. Bartram's sand- 

 Jack snipe. piper. 

 Red-breasted snipe. Solitary sandpiper. 

 Common sand- Wood sandpiper. 



piper. Bar-tailed godwit. 



Green sandpiper. Black-tailed godwit. 



Broad-billed sand- Greenshank. 



piper. Redshank. 



