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MANUAL FOtt YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 



The golden plover, Charadius marmoratus, and his 

 brother the black-bellied plover, Charadius Helveticus, 

 whom the gunners call the bull-headed, follow. Both of 

 these birds are killed on the bays, but are of far superior 

 quality when killed inland, on high sheepwalks and pas- 

 tures ; they must not, however, be confounded with the 

 Bartramian sandpiper, or tattler, the most delicious of all 

 American birds, not even excepting the canvas-back, which 

 goes generally by the name of the u upland plover," while 

 the golden plover figures as the " frost bird." 



Two species of god wits are among these wading visit- 

 ors : the great marbled god wit, Limosa Fedea a regular 

 though rare and shy guest on the sea-shores ; and the 

 Hudsonian godwit, Limosa Hudsonica, smaller and yet 



