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58 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
ith afh-colour, ftreaked with white; the back i 
ofa dufky green, glofly like filk; the ftomach an 
_ outer tail-feathers are white; the legs are of g 
greenifh lead colour. 
Green Sandpipers frequent little ftreams of 
frefh water: they run along the fhore, or fkim 
along the furface of the water. They make ; 
noife when they rife, and whilft they fly flap their 
wings now and then, The Green Sandpipe 
plunges into the water, fometimes, when it is 
purfued. Small Buzzards frequently chace jt; 
fometimes they furprize it whilft it refts itt 
on the banks of the water, or as it is feeking for 
its food; for Sandpipers, have no fentinels to 
watch for them as many birds have who fly in flocks, 
and for that reafon they are more eafily deftroyed 
by the fowler: eachives alone in the little diftria 
that he has chofen, by the fide of the ftream, 
Though they live lonely in the fummer, when 
they move from one country to another, they fi 
in little flocks of five or fix, and are heard in th 
air, when the nights are ftill. They frequent too 
the mouths of rivers, and following the waves, 
feed upon little worms, or the fpawn of fith, which 
they find on the fand, 
The Sandpiper is very nice food, though it hs 
rather a mufky tafte, and a mutky {mell, 
The 

