Birds. 



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it was in vain that I sought to get a view of it in its native haunts, 

 and to make acquaintance with it in a state of nature. 



118. Glareola orientalis, Lath. The flight of this bird is much like 

 that of the golden plover, only swifter, with more evolutions. Its eggs 

 are four in number, laid in a depression in the ground. It often feeds 

 on the Cicindelae that swarm on the sands : running with velocity 

 after its prey, springing lightly into the air as the insect takes wing, 

 and snapping it with a quick turn, in the manner of a Muscicapa it 

 wheels round and alights again on the ground. 



119. Squatarola helvetica, L. 



120. Charadrius longipes, Temm. 



121. ^Egialites Geoffroii, Wagl. 



122. M. cantianus, Lath. 



123. M. philippinus, Scop. 



124. Haematopus longirostris, Gray. 



125. Recurvirostra Avocetta, L. 



126. Totanus glottis, L. 



. 127. T. stagnatilis, Bechst. 

 1-28. T. calidris, L. 



129. T. glareola, Gmel. 



130. T. ochropus, L. 



131. T. brevipes, Vieill. 



132. Tringoides hypoleucos, L. 



133. Limosa uropygialis, Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 29. 



134. Numenius minor, Schleg. Faun. Japon. 



135. N. uropygialis, Gould. 



136. N. major, Schleg. Faun. Japon. 



137. N. arcuatus, L. 



138. N. rufescens, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 286. 



139. Tringa Cinclus, L. 



140. T. acuminata. 



141. T. platyrhyncha, Temm.. 



142. T. Temminckii, Letsler. 



143. T. damacensis. 



144. T. albescens, Gould. The small parties of these birds that 

 visit our salt-marshes rise all together, when disturbed, with a loud 

 twittering note. When one is wounded its companions fly round and 

 about it to try and render it assistance, in the manner of curlews, and 

 often keep by the fallen until it dies, thus too frequently endangering 

 their own lives. I have not observed this sympathy with the distress 

 of its fellows displayed by any other species of Tringa. 



