162 AMERICAN GAME. 
gether with the. American Golden Plover, Charadrius 
Marmoratus, and the Black-bellied Plover, Charadrius 
Helweticus, on the marshes of the Awa Canards river, 
near Amherstberg, in Canada West, in the month of 
September, and a month later at Montgomery’s Pool, 
between lakes Sincoe and Huron. 
Of the Tattlers, three only are in repute as shore-birds, 
the best of the species, the Bartramian Tattler, Zotanus 
Bartranvius, better known as the “Upland Plover,” 
which is, in fact, with scarcely an exception, the most 
delicious of all our game-birds, being a purely upland 
and inland variety, and as such never, or but extremely 
seldom, shot on the coast. 
These three are, 
The Yellow-shanks Tattler, Zotanus Flavipes, vulgo, 
* the lesser yellow legs”—a bird, in my opinion, of very 
indifferent qualifications for the table, but easily decoyed, 
and readily answering the fowler’s whistle, and there- 
fore affording considerable sport. 
The Telltale Tattler, Zotanus Vociferus, vulgo, “ great- 
er yellow legs,” a less numerous species than the former, 
and more suspicious. Its flesh, when it feeds on the 
spawn of the king-crab, or “ Horse-shoe,” is all but un- 
eatable, but later in the season it is in better condition, 
and is esteemed good eating. A few are said to breed in 
New Jersey. In the neighborhood of Philadelphia, where 
these birds are shot in great numbers on the mud-flats 
of the Delaware from skiffs, with carefully concealed 
