BIEDS NOT TEUE GAME. 



THE UPLAND PLOVER ; THE RAIL ; THE GALLINULE. 



So soon as summer woodcock-shooting and bay snipe- 

 shooting are at an end in the Northern and Middle States, 

 and just about the time when grouse-shooting is beginning 

 in the West, two other kinds of sport come into season, 

 which, though they can scarcely be called, in the strictest 

 sense, game-shooting, have yet many votaries, and afford 

 much amusement, beside supplying the table with two 

 of the choicest delicacies known to America. 



The upland plover, as it is generally called, not being a 

 plover at all, but a tattler, of the same species with the 

 yellow-leg, the willet, and some others, was first classified 

 by Wilson, who gave it the name of his venerable friend 

 Mr. Bartram, who has conferred much benefit on the 

 science of natural history in America, and well merits the 



