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and looked very suggestive of Crakes. The bushes were the regular resort 

 of Red-backed Shrikes, and Turtle-Doves were to be found in nearly all 

 the larger trees. Ducks sometimes came there in the evening, and an 

 occasional laggard lay up for the day in the clump of reeds at its mouth ; 

 but, on the whole, it was a typical haunt of Sandpipers, especially, I consider, 

 of the " Green." 



Birds like the Phalaropes and Temminck's Stint are more often to be 

 met with at the brackish pools which lie just beside the turf sea-wall. 

 Many are fringed with reeds, and present cover sufficient for a Duck, or 



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even a wandering Bittern ; and as they in places tollow one another at 

 intervals for a distance of several miles, they will well repay a careful 

 examination, especially if the shooter advance along the outer side of the 

 bank, and send a dog to explore the pools themselves. Coots, too, will some- 

 times take up their abode amongst the reeds, and Moorhens are almost 

 always to be seen. 



If the land be less thoroughly drained, and the pools more numerous, 

 they develop at times into a regular marsh, as in the case of Thorpe Mere, 

 at Aldeburgh. On these brackish meres some of the choicest Waders are 

 to be met with. Here one may look with some confidence for the Dusky 

 Redshank, a bird which I have only been able to recognize on the wing by 



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