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eoys if the sportsman is well concealed. Like 
the last species, on the marshes and inland it 
is fond of berries and small fruits, but on the 
seacoast subsists mostly on snails and marine 
creatures. 
This bird is considerably smaller than the 
‘‘sickle-bill’’ and is not so brightly colored. He 
is from fifteen to seventeen inches long and has 
a sail spread of about thirty-three inches. The 
top of the head is dusky brown with a white 
stripe through the centre and along each side. 
A dark strip from the bill through the eye to 
the ear coverts. Above, dusky browns and 
blacks, mottled with whitish and dull yellow, the 
dark shades making the body color. Tail gray- 
ish brown with indistinct black bars. Primaries 
dusky brown with lighter mottlings. Linings 
of the wings pale red-brown with dusky bar- 
rings,—markings which will serve to distinguish 
this from young and undeveloped specimens of 
the Sickle-bill. Under parts grayish white. 
Lower throat and upper breast with dusky 
streaks, these becoming arrowheads or broken 
barrings on breast and flanks. Legs and feet 
blackish; bill blackish, flesh-colored at base, 
