THE LONG-TAILED TATTLERS. 
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counties: Warwicfahke, Cambridgeshi^^^^^^^ 
.all (twice), “kirhas W ™ted. The details 
!,n“s:'oSuS«srte't 5 ;git^ i^utc -Manuar- ol Mt. 
Howard Saunders. Tattler has been 
Range outside the British ^ ^ Its breeding 
killed in Italy, and also on tl^e Island^ a^a 
home is in temperate Nor Pacific coast on migra- 
Alaska ; it seldom occurs on ^ Southern United 
tion, but follows the lute of the c„d thence 
S^?B".rfA?™^tbc Loan'd .0 Chili on th.westetn 
side of South America. , 
ATr n U Elliot who writes of this species 3 -S the 
<‘UpirndFiover,”givesthefoUo^^ 
piper, frequenting 8''^ y . , <■ pg chief means of 
Fng with active steps the he gracefully ; and 
subsistence. • ■ 'je ._aa„Vjgs some suspicious object, with 
when standing f ® , ;e f p extent and topped by the 
its slender neck s retcl ed than it really is. 
well-shaped j p plover is a loud, long, yet soft 
“The note of considerable distance. As one 
whistle, and can be heard f _ g^r this 
icwalltiog »«' 'S; Sb?*oS™locSi.,. Hestopu 
distinct cry, comi g ^ j borne to him, 
and listens, and looks up, and sees 
this time distmguished^a_^^f^^^^^ 
nothing but tl c ■ ^ Pny speck is visible that floats 
a. d horn tfme L dme, from out the very 
motionless alon a 
lieavens, suitable ground, the bird begins to lower, and 
Descrying some suiu b > . p pownwards, 
on occusionull, on u 
and mights, sou and motionless, with its' wings 
fence or stake. exhibiting the beautiful markings 
- ;™h" tlie-lowl, folds then, mto 
