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3. Spotted Tatler, Totanus Macularms ; 



4. Solitary Tatler, Totanus Solitarius ; 



5. Yellow Shanks Tatler, Lesser Yellow Leg, Totanus 

 Flavipes ; 



6. Telltale Tatler, Greater Yellow Leg, Totanus Vodfe- 

 rus ; and 



7. Green Shanks Tatler, Totanus Glottis. 



Of these the Upland Plover, the Willet, and the two Yellow 

 Legs are very general favorites. The first is an excellent bird ; 

 the others, me judice, are, nine times out of ten, uneatably fishy 

 or sedgy. 



The third genus, Limosa, Godwit, has but one species which 

 visits us. 



The Great Marbled Godwit, or Straight-billed Curlew, 

 Limosa Fedoa, frequently killed with the Sandpipers, Plovers and 

 Tatlers on the Long Island bays, and the shores of New Jersey. 



The fourth genus, Scolopax, has three species known to every 

 sportsman ; two his most chosen game. They are — 



1. Wilson's Snipe — vulg. English Snipe — Scolopax Wil- 

 sonii ; 



2. Red-breasted Snipe — vulg. Quail Snipe — Scolopax No- 

 veboracensis ; and 



3. The American Woodcock, Scolopax Minor. 



The other genera, each containing one species, are the 

 Recurvirostra, Avosets ; Himantopus, Stilt ; and Numenius, 

 Curlew ; all of which are well known to our fowlers, though, 

 with the exception of the last, all falsely termed Bay Snipe. Ob- 

 serve, that the Red-breasted Snipe of this family is the only Snipe 

 which frequents the sea-beach or salt marshes ; the other birds 

 so called are Plovers, Sandpipers, Tatlers, Turnstones, Avosets, 

 Phalaropes, and others, whose names are legion ; but not a 

 Snipe among them ; and even the solitary Red-breasted Snipe 

 lies under some suspicion of being rather a connecting link be- 

 tween the Snipes, proper, and the Godwits and Tatlers, than him- 

 self a pure Snipe. 



