162 AMERICAN GAME. 



gether with the American Golden Plover, Charadrius 

 Marmoratus, and the Black-bellied Plover, Charadrius 

 Helveticus, on the marshes of the Aux Canards river, 

 near Amherstberg, in Canada West, in the month of 

 September, and a month later at Montgomery's Pool, 

 between lakes Sincoe and Huron. 



Of the Tattlers, three only are in repute as shore-birds, 

 the best of the species, the Bartramian Tattler, Totanus 

 Bartramius, better known as the " Upland Plover," 

 which is, in fact, with scarcely an exception, the most 

 delicious of all our game-birds, being a purely upland 

 and inland variety, and as such never, or but extremely 

 seldom, shot on the coast. 



These three are, 



The Yellow-shanks Tattler, Totanus Flampes, vulgo, 

 " the lesser yellow legs" a bird, in my opinion, of very 

 indifferent qualifications for the table, but easily decoyed, 

 and readily answering the fowler's whistle, and there- 

 fore affording considerable sport. 



The Telltale Tattler, Totanus Vodferus, vulgo, " great- 

 er yellow legs," a less numerous species than the former, 

 and more suspicious. Its flesh, when it feeds on the 

 spawn of the king-crab, or " Horse-shoe," is all but un- 

 eatable, but later in the season it is in better condition, 

 and is esteemed good eating. A few are said to breed in 

 JSTew Jersey. In the neighborhood of Philadelphia, where 

 these birds are shot in great numbers on the mud-flats 

 of the Delaware from skiffs } with carefully concealed 



