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The Wood Sandpiper — Dimensions, Ha; Eggs, J m — has bre^ in this country but is 

 chiefly known as an irregular straggler during its autumn and spring migrations. It has a 

 quick shifty flight, and a call of treacle." The nest is a hollow near a marsh, lined with a 

 httle dry grass, and containing four eggs. 



The Green Sandpiper— Dimensions, Hm j Eggs, Jl— Is with us nearly all the year, except 

 during the summer months, when it goes northward to breed. It has a rapid, hasty flight, 

 never fully opening its wings, and almost closing them during the final turns it takes before 

 it alights. Its call is " dlee, dlee, dlee." This sandpiper lays its eggs in some deserted nest 

 in a tree. 



The Solitary Sandpiper — Dimensions, Hs — is an American, occasionally wandering here. 

 Its eggs are unknowr.. 



The Redshank — Dimensions, Jf ; Eggs, Lt — is resident in many of our marshes, and has 

 its numbers increased in the winter by migrants from the Continent. It has a quick, jerky 

 sort of flight, its white secondaries being conspicuous. Its call is a loud " took," or " tyook." 

 Its nest is on the ground, well hidden among the herbage, a mere hollow trodden by the bird. 

 There are four eggs. 



The Yellowshank — Dimensions, Ji ; Eggs, Ks — is an American, found here only two or 

 three times. 



The Spotted Redshank — Dimensions, Ke ; Eggs, Mj— is occasionally met with in the 

 eastern counties on spring and autumn migration. It breeds in Finland. 



The Greenshank — Dimensions^ Lj ; Eggs, Mo — is a summer migrant, breeding in the north 

 of Scotland. It has a strong quick flight, and a call of *' tyu tyu." The nest is a hollow in 

 the ground, lined with a few heather twigs and leaves. There are four eggs. 



SCOLOPACIDM, 



Little Stint. Wing less than four inches ; six 

 outer tail feathers brownish grey ; wings level with 

 tail ; legs black. 



Temminck's Stint. Six outer tail feathers white ; 

 legs brown. 



American Stint. Six outer tail feathers grey ; 

 legs and feet pale brown. 



Curlew Sandpiper. White ring barred with 

 black round base of tail ; bill decurved. 



Dunlin. Black and chestnut above ; chin white ; 

 breast greyish white ; lower breast black ; axillaries 

 white ; wings not reaching to tail ; legs black. 



Bonaparte's Sandpiper. Upper tail coverts 

 white, lightly streaked with brown ; bill short ; legs 

 and feet brown. 



Pectoral Sandpiper. Upper tail coverts blackish 

 brown ; wings extending beyond tail. 



Purple Sandpiper. Upper tail coverts blackish ; 

 white bar on wings. 



Knot. Back black with chestnut spots ; upper tail 

 coverts white with black bands ; axillaries white 

 with brown bars. 



The Little Stint — Dimensiona, Ck ; Eggs, Gj — comes in spring and autumn on its 

 migrations to and from the north. The flight is a rapid, unsteady one, with bent wings. The 

 call is " stint," a sort of grasshopper's chirp. 



Temminck's Stint — Dimensions, Dd ; Eggs, Gp— also visits us twice a year in its 

 journeyings north and south. Like the Little Stint it is greyish brown above in the winter. 

 It has a quick, vigorous flight, and a call of " tirrr." 



The American Stint— Dimensions, Dn ; Eggs, Gi— is very rare, in fact it has only been 

 shot twice in this country. 



The Curlew Sandpiper— Dimensions, Fr — visits us on migration in the spring and autumn 

 on its way to and from its breeding haunts in the north. Its eggs are unknown. In flight it 

 i» distinguishable by , its curved beak and sharply pointed wings. 



