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THE ‘‘ PEEPS.”’ 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 
(Ereunetes pusillus.) 
LEAST SANDPIPER. 
Actodromas minutilla.) 
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 
(Actodromas fuscicollis.) 
What will become of the beginners in the 
art of wing shooting when the little ‘‘Sand- 
peep’s’’ gentle ‘‘peet-weet’’ is no more to be 
heard along the muddy banks of our marshes 
and tide-waters? This is a grave question for 
coming generations to solve, for the poor per- 
secuted little ‘‘peep’’ furnishes the object les- 
son in the very first school—the kindergarten, 
as it were—of the shotgun crank’s education. 
Gentle, confiding and unsuspicious in their 
nature, their trustful simplicity is the cause of 
great loss of life among their close-flying flocks. 
The small boy with his ancient musket has 
wrought great havoc in their ranks, and even 
the older gunner sometimes takes a post-gradu- 
