LITTLE RINGED-PLOVER 121 
and the pace that those little legs can go, when 
they do their best, is amazing. It has a charming 
way of ever and anon stopping suddenly still and 
looking steadily at you, with head held very 
slightly aside, seeming to try to read right 
through you, and discover if you are friend or 
foe. When it flies its wings are seen to be very 
sharp and pointed, and bearing some resemblance 
to a snipe’s—a bird it is often made to do duty for 
by those romancers, the native gunners, who tempt 
the uninitiated to accompany them for snipe- 
shooting, and assure the new-comer these poor 
little Plover are Snipe—* Egyptian” Snipe. 
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