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young. I have on different occasions seen an exciting chase, 

 and on May 4th, 1900, I suddenly surprised a large female 

 Peregrine as she was standing on a sand-hill, hut seeing 

 me, she flew off, leaving behind her some picked bones and 

 the feathers of a Whimbrel. 



Flight. The flight is steady and well sustained ; it 

 resembles that of the Curlew, and the two species, except 

 for the difference in size, might easily be confounded on the 

 wing. 



FIG. 50. WHIMBREL. 



Voice. When the nesting-grounds are intruded upon, 

 the birds, darting to and fro, utter a very excitable double- 

 syllabled note, w T hich is rapidly repeated. It sounds like 

 tetty-yetty-yetty-tetty-yeity-tet. The familiar alarm- whistle, 

 heard in autumn on the slob-lands, also when the birds pass 

 high overhead on migration, may be syllabled whee-whee- 

 wkee-whee-iohee-whee-whee-ivhit. Each syllable is repeated 

 rapidly and receives equal accentuation. 



Food. Small crabs, sand-hoppers, shrimps, worms, and 

 shell-fish, obtained along the sea-shore, are consumed in 

 autumn and spring ; away from the tide the Whimbrel eats 



