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The purre sandpipers pursue their prey, which consists 

 principally of marine-worms, along the shore, running and 

 shaking the tail incessantly. They construct no nest, and lay 

 on the sand four or five eggs, very large in proportion to the 

 size of the bird. It is not ascertained whether they have two 

 broods yearly, or not, but their great multiplication renders 

 the affirmative probable. 



They are found, as numerous as in Europe, in the Northern 

 and Southern Countries of America. Bartram says, that they 

 pass the entire year in Pennsylvania ; and Bosc has seen them 

 arrive from the North, in Carolina, in the winter season. 

 They are also considerably numerous in Louisiana, the An- 

 tilles, St. Domingo, Guiana, Brazil, &c. In every place they 

 frequent sandy coasts only. During high tides, these sand- 

 pipers collect in such abundance on the strand, and are so 

 crowded together, that more than fifty may be brought down 

 at a single shot. 



Modern navigators have met with them on the shores of 

 the Australian islands. They also frequent those of Africa, 

 and are found at the Cape ; so that it would appear that there 

 is no part of the world M'here these birds do not exist. 



Cocorli is merely a designation given by M. Temminck to 

 the Cape Curlew of Latham {Numejiius Africanus)^ of 

 which no further notice need be added here. 



The division Falcinellus, in like manner, comprehends 

 but one species {Scol. Pygmcea), and is merely distinguished 

 by a bill a little more arched than the foregoing. 



As to the Machetes of the text, including the species 

 Tringa Pugnax only, the birds which constitute it are re- 

 markable for nothing but the desperate combats which take 

 place between the males, for the possession of the females. It 

 is the Ruff Sandpiper of Latham, and is very singular in its 

 appearance. 



The subdivisions Eurinoehychus, containing the Dwarf 



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