88 SHORE BIRDS. 
fat bird; short-neck; jack snipe; marsli plover; grass snipe; robin 
snipe; red back. On account ot Its creaking, shrill cry it is called 
the krlekcr on the Northern New Jersey coast, but further south it 
changes Its name to short-neck and tat bird. On the Inland meadows 
of New Jersey It Is known as the robin snipe and meadow stipe. On 
Long Island It assumes several of the above names. It Is said to 
never stool, but we have seen it do so occasionally. 
Red-backed sandpiper (Tringa alpina var. Americana); black- 
breast; black-breajted plover; winter snipe; red-back. Known on 
the coast from Maine to Florida, Its most common name being the 
black-breast 
Long-legged sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus); stilt; bastard 
dowltch; bastard yellow-leg; wood snipe; blind snipe; frost snipe; 
peep; drumstick. On Long Island il ls calUd the bastard dowltch, 
and on the Jersey coast the blind snipe. 
The above list comprises the different varieties of bay 
snipe that are worthy of the sportsman’s aim. In addition 
to these there are the small plovers, called ring-necks, beach- 
snipe and surf-snipe, and the tiny sand pipers, such as the 
ox-eyes, sand-snipe, shore birds and peeps, excellent when 
roasted, but only fit for little b ginners to pop away at. 
