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SHORE BIRDS . 
fat bird; short-neck; jack snipe; marsh plover; grass snipe; robin 
snipe ; red back. On account of Its creaking, shrill cry It Is called 
tie krieker on the Northern New Jersey coast, but further south It 
changes its name to short-neck and fat bird. On the Inland meadows 
of New Jersey It Is known as the robin snipe and meadow snipe. 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-breasted 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 
dowitch; bastard yellow-leg; wood snipe; blind snipe; frost snipe; 
peep; drum stick. On Long Island it is calk d the bastard dowitch, 
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 beginners to pop away at. 
