234 Where to Hunt 



baldpate arc rather scarce ; red-head are occasionally 

 shot ; canvasback are very rare. Blue-winged teal are 

 not uncommon ; green-winged are rarer ; wood-duck 

 are reasonably plentiful, varying as all birds do with 

 different years. They drop into all the fresh-water 

 rivers, but are most commonly found near Westerly and 

 Hope. Ruddy duck are common ; shovellers are occa- 

 sional. Of sandpipers the most abundant are least, 

 semipalmated, and spotted. The last named breed 

 within the state. They are too small for purposes of 

 sport or for the table, but are nevertheless killed in 

 great numbers each year. Greater and lesser yellow- 

 legs are to be found in fair abundance. Pectoral sand- 

 piper or grass-bird are common ; turnstone, red-breasted 

 snipe, dowitcher, stilt-sandpiper, and white-rumped sand- 

 piper are fairly numerous. Knot or red-breasted sand- 

 piper are rather rare. Solitary and buff-breasted sand- 

 piper are occasionally found, the latter the rarer. 

 Bartramian sandpiper or upland-plover were formerly 

 very abundant, but they are now quite rare. Killdeer- 

 plover are now rare; piping-plover are quite common, 

 and sometimes breed within the state. Ringnecked 

 plover arc occasionally found. Long-billed curlew 

 (sickle-bill) are very rare; Hudsonian or jack-curlew 

 are not uncommon ; Esquimaux or dough-bird are now 

 quite rare ; Hudsonian godwit, also known as the white- 

 rumped marlin, are very rare; great marbled godwit 

 are also very rare. Purple sandpiper are occasionally 

 found on the coast; willet are at times quite plentiful; 

 red-backed sandpiper are common late in fall. Sander- 

 ling were formerly quite abundant, but of late years 

 have become scarce. 



