ORDER GRALL.E. 5^i) 



gallinae, for the trituration of their food, which is too soft to 

 require any thing of the kind, but rather that they have been 

 taken in along with it. 



These birds are particularly wild, and fly precipitately 

 from the slightest appearance of danger, uttering a cry 

 which Belon compares to the smothered bleating of a she-goat. 

 At the time of their arrival they are seen in flocks, and often 

 heard, passing very high, in the evening, or by moonlight. 

 But the moment they alight, they are so much fatigued that 

 they resume their flight with much difficulty ; at such times, 

 though they run with swiftness they can be easily turned, 

 and sufficient numbers driven together to enable the fowler to 

 kill several of them Avith a single shot. They remain but a 

 short time at one place, and it is not uncommon to find them 

 no longer in the morning, in those marshes, where, the pre- 

 ceding evening, they had been extremely numerous. Their 

 flesh is excellent eating. 



The Limosae inhabit, by preference, the cold regions of 

 both continents ; but in like manner as from Lapland they 

 have extended into the temperate climates of Hudson's Bay, so 

 have they advanced considerably into the other countries of 

 America. Sloane has found some of them in Jamaica ; an(J 

 from certain passages of Hernandez, it would appear, that 

 they have been seen even in New Spain ; some individuals 

 have been shot in winter, in this country. Of the species 

 separately, nothing could be added but mere description. 



The division Calidris, at the head of which stands our 

 Sandpiper^ has given rise to multifarious learned disputes 

 among naturahsts, which our readers will be thankful to us 

 for omitting here ; neither can we instance anything respect- 

 ing the species of which it is composed, deserving their 

 attention. 



The Sanderlings are found in Europe, in Asia, in North 

 America, and in New South Wales. They inhabit the sea- 



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