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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER VII. 
SA>a)PiPERS, ETC. : — The Black-breasted, ''Ash-coloured, Purple, 
Curlew-billed, Pectoral, Schinz's, Flat-billed, Temminck's, and 
Little Sandpipers — Sanderling — Curlew — Whimbrel — Bar, 
and Black-tailed Godwits — EufF and Reeve — Phalarope and 
Lobefoot 109 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Tattlers, etc.: — The Avocet — Stiltshank and Longshank — 
Dusky and Common Redshanks — Green and "Wood Tattlers — 
White-breasted and Spotted Weet-weets , , . .131 
CHAPTER IX. 
Snipes and Woodcocks : — The Common, Great, Sabine's, and 
Jack Snipes — ^Woodcock 139 
CHAPTER X. 
Stalkers, Bitterns, and Herons, etc. : — The European, 
American, Little, and Squacco Bitterns — The Night, Grey, 
and Piu'ple Herons— The Black-billed, Yellow-billed, Little 
White, and Buff-backed Egrets 151 
CHAPTER XL 
Storks, etc. : — The White and Black Storks — Glossy Ibis-— 
White Spoonbill 167 
CHAPTER XII. 
Rails, Craiks, etc. — The Water Rail — The Corn, Spotted, Little, 
andBaillon's Craiks — The Water Hen — Common Coot . .175 
CHAPTER xilL 
SwiMmNG Birds: — Geese — The Duck-billed, Narrow-billed, 
and Short-billed Grey Geese — The White-fronted, and Canada 
Geese — The White-faced, Black-faced, and Red-necked Ber- 
nacle Geese — The Egyptian Eox Goose, and Spur-winged 
Goose 180 
