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Waite Storx.— Reptiles, fish, young water-fowl, aquatic 
insects, worms, small mammals (Yarrell). Snails and frogs; it 
refuses toads (Stevenson). 
Buacx Storx.—Fish, eels, large insects, worms, mice, and 
reptiles (Yarrell). 
SpoonpitL.—Sandhoppers, shrimps, small fish, aquatic insects, 
molluses, and small reptiles (Yarrell). 
Ipis.—Small reptiles, fry of fish, small Crustacea, aquatic 
insects, worms, &c. (Yarrell). 
CurLEw. — Marine *insects, worms, and small Crustacea 
(Yarrell). On sandy parts of the coast feeds largely on cockles 
(Harting). 
Wuimeret.—Insects and worms (Yarrell). 
Srorrep RepsHank.— Minute spiral univalves, aquatic insects, 
worms, and small Testacea (Yarrell). Small beetles (Harting). 
ReEDsHANK.— Aquatic insects, marine and other worms (Yarrell). 
Vegetable fibre and minute particles of grit often found in the 
stomach, together with small beetles and fragments of small 
univalve Mollusca (Harting). 
GREEN SAanpPIPpER.— Worms (Yarrell). Small beetles (Harting). 
Spiders, woodlice, small red worms, and small freshwater snails 
(Stevenson). 
Woop Sanppiper.— Insects and worms (Yarrell). 
GREENSHANK.—Small fish, smelts, bearded loach, insects, 
worms, Crustacea and Mollusca, shrimps (Yarrell). 
Avocrt.— Thin-skinned Crustacea, aquatic insects, worms 
(Yarrell). Small black beetles which abound in the mud banks 
of the river at Breydon (Stevenson). 
Buack-winceD Srinv.—Aquatic insects (Yarrell). “A Stilt 
was seen snapping at insects buzzing round it” (Stevenson). 
Small thin-shelled Mollusca (like Physa and Succinea), which it 
picks off the leaves of aquatic plants (Harting). 
Buack-TaAILED Gopwir.—lInsects and their larve, worms, &c. 
(Yarrell). Small univalve Mollusca (Harting). 
Bar-TAILED Gopwrr.—Aquatic insects, worms, and mollusks 
(Yarrell). 
Rurr anp Rerve.—Insects and worms (Yarrell). Reeve, 
small bronze-winged beetles and earwigs (Stevenson). 
PratincoLte.—Beetles (Stevenson). 
Woopcocx.—Common earthworms in great quantities (Yarrell). 
