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SAND-PIPERS. 
equally as lai'ge, green and beautiful, with rows of 
beads on his wing - covers, or a small, brown, 
flattish species. Besides these you may bag a 
few specimens of Helops and Helops' cousins- 
german, and sometimes a stag-beetle will reward 
our persevering exertions. But oli 1 what sweeps 
we look as we return in triumph with our eapture ! 
Our nether habiliments, now no longer white, torn 
and stained, our hands decidedly dirty paws,” and 
our faces as smutty as the bottom of the family 
tea-kettle ! 
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After a severe gale I landed on a warm calm day 
in the bight of the bay, and the contrast between 
the clear sunshine and the smiling aspect of the 
gi'cen shore, and the late raging sea and driving 
spray, was vciy grateful. The sand-pipers were 
(pietly busy probing for worms in the saturated, 
spongy soil. One very pretty species, with broad 
webs to his feet, was hovering about the surf, 
chasing flies, and even swimming leisurely about 
in the water. Cormorants were dressing their 
