The Long-billed, Dowitcher 
crack, and goes down so irresistibly that dignity is quite forgotten, and 
the outraged birds flee as from a scare-crow with suddenly brandished 
arms. Quietness, too, is de rigueur, and the author quite prides himself, 
now, upon being able to withdraw an Ethiopian foot from the depths, all 
silently, instead of with a sound like elephantine osculation. 
Meanwhile, the sights visible on the plates are all of “Rewards and 
Fairies.” Tiny “Peeps” are pattering over the glistening surface of the 
mud and gladdening the ear with Puckish chatterings. Their little bodies 
and roguish glances, displayed at minimum range, challenge another shot, 
(Upper) Taken in Monterey County 
(Lower) Taken near Santa Barbara 
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