CLASS II. AVES: ORDER 7. GRALLATORES. 
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berries. They soon depart, moving away to the south in large flocks. Their flesh is excellent, 
and they are tolerably abundant during the season in the larger city markets. 
The Esquimaux Curlew, or Little Curlew, or Douan-BiRD, A" borealis — the Small ^squi- 
mwiLX Curlew of Nuttall — is four- 
teen inches long ; blackish-brown 
above, mottled with rufous-brown 
and gray ; beneath yellowish-gray, 
streaked. Its range is very ex- 
tensive — from Pai'aguay to 70° 
north. It is common along our 
coasts from August to Kovember, 
when it proceeds southward. It 
is a gTeat delicacy, and much 
sought after by sportsmen. 
The Long-billed Curlew, N. 
longirostriSjlanoMm along our coast 
by the names of SicJcle-Bill and 
Big Curlew^ is twenty-five inches 
long ; bill long, and curving down- 
ward in a remarkable degree to- 
ward the tip ; the color blackish- 
brown, spotted with reddish and 
gray above ; beneath reddish-buff ; 
its food consists of small mollusca, 
insects, berries, worms, and crabs ; 
common on the coasts of the Mid- 
dle States from the middle of Au- 
gust to the middle of September; 
some linger till November. Its flesh is indifi"erent food ; distributed throughout the temperate 
parts of North America. It is supposed there maybe two or three species confounded in this one. 
Geyius TOTANUS : Totanus. — This includes sev- 
eral birds called Tatlers, which resemble the snipes 
and sandpipers, but have longer legs. The Spotted 
Red-Shank, T. fuscus — the Chevalier hrun of tbe 
French — is twelve inches long ; ash-gray above, be- 
neath white. It inhabits the sea-shore, as well as 
the borders of rivers and lakes, feeding on worms, 
insects, and small testacea, and in search of these, 
burying itself to the breast in mud ; it is migratory, 
breeds at the north, and is found in EuroDe and 
Asia. 
The Common Red-Shank, T. calidris — Chevalier 
gamhette of the French — is ten and a half inches 
long ; brown, with black spots, above ; beneath 
'■•^^^^H^^^f '^^^ brown spots ; spread over Europe ; sed- 
'"^^^^^^ entary in France. 
Bartram's Tatler, T. Bartraviius — named Bar- 
tramps Sandpiper by Wilson, and known along our 
coast by the various names of Gray Plover, Crass- 
Plover, Upland-Plover, and Field-Plover — ^is twelve 
inches long; ferruginous, Avith small black streaks, 
above ; beneath white ; found on the Atlantic coast, 
from Texas to Nova Scotia; accidental in Europe. This is the Aciiturus Bartramius of Bonaparte. 
THE SPOTTED RED-SHANK. 
THE COMMOK EED-SHAKK. 
