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3. Spotted Tatler, Totanus Macularius ; 
4. Solitary Tatler, Totanus Solitarius ; 
5. Yellow Shanks Tatler, Lesser Yellow Leg, Totanus 
Flavipes ; 
6. Telltale Tatler, Greater Yellow Leg, Totanus Vocife- 
rus; and 
7. Green Shanks Tatler, Totanus Glottis. 
Of these the Upland Plover, the Willet, and the two Yellow- 
Legs are very general favorites. The first is an excellent bird ; 
the others, me judice , are, nine times out of ten, uneatably fishy 
or sedgy. 
The third genus, Limosa , Godwit, has but one species which 
visits us. 
The Great Marbled Godwit, or Straight-billed Curlew, 
Limosa Fedoa , frequently killed with the Sandpipers, Plovers and 
Tatlers on the Long Island bays, and the shores of New Jersey. 
The fourth genus, Scolopax , has three species known to every 
sportsman ; two his most chosen game. They are— 
1. Wilson’s Snipe— vulg. English Snipe —Scolopax Wil- 
sonii; 
2. Red-breasted Snipe— vulg. Quail Snipe —Scolopax No- 
veboracensis ; and 
3. The American Woodcock, Scolopax Minor. 
The other genera, each containing one species, are the 
Recurvirostra , Avosets ; Himantopus , Stilt; and Numenius , 
Curlew ; all of which are well known to our fowlers, though, 
with the exception of the last, all falsely termed Bay Snipe. Ob¬ 
serve, that the Red-breasted Snipe of this family is the only Snipe 
which frequents the sea-beach or salt marshes ; the other birds 
so called are Plovers, Sandpipers, Tatlers, Turnstones, Avosets, 
Phalaropes, and others, whose names are legion; but not a 
Snipe among them; and even the solitary Red-breasted Snipe 
lies under some suspicion of being rather a connecting link be¬ 
tween the Snipes, proper, and the Godwits and Tatlers, than him¬ 
self a pure Snipe. 
