U R I N G September, 
thousands of sports- 
men are drawn to the 
sand beaches and in- 
lets of the coast and 
the sloughs of the in- 
terior by the annual 
'migration of the yel- 
low-legs, black breast- 
ed and golden plover, 
and the many les- 
ser varieties that go 
to make up the numerous species of 
American shorebirds. 
Probably the cream of shorebird 
shooting is found along the meadows of 
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Never- 
theless the inland shooters obtain their 
share of sport at upland plover, Wilson 
snipe and woodcock. 
Most of these birds are great travel- 
lers, arriving or leaving with a change 
in the weather, and the time to get them, 
as has been aptly stated, .is when they 
are here. The golden plover is probably 
the greatest voyager of the lot, starting 
his migration in Labrador and ending in 
lower Argentine ; the round trip being a 
mere matter of sixteen thousand miles 
or so, not all of which, as a friend once 
remarked, “is spent in New Jersey.” 
With this great variety of shooting 
conditions, it follows that the methods 
vary a bit in different localities. Most 
of the snipe, yellow-legs, and plover, 
however, that are shot along the coasts 
and marshes, are killed over decoys. A 
dozen to fifteen or twenty wooden or 
tin imitations are ordinarily sufficient. 
The yellow-leg decoys are the best to 
use, as they are large and easily distin- 
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up forty or fifty yards to the leewan 
of the shooting stand. 
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