‘& THE NATURAL HISTORY 
ith afh-colour, ftreaked with white; the back is 
of a dufky green, glofly like filk; the ftomach and 
‘outer tail-feathers are white; the es are of a 
_— lead colour. 
Green Sandpipers frequent little ftreams of 
Metotasin: they run along the fhore, or fkim 
along the furface of the water. “They make a 
noife when they rife, and whilft they fly flap their — 
wings now and then. The Green Sandpiper 
- ‘plunges into the water, fometimes, when ‘it is 
‘purfued, Small Buzzards eats chace it; 
. fometimes. they furprize it whilft it refts itfelf 
- :on the banks of the »water, or as it is feeking for 
its food for Sandpipers have no fentinels to 
watch for them asmany birds have who fly inflocks, 
- and for that reafon they are more eafily deftroyed — 
‘by the fowler: each'lives alone in'the little diftri@ — 
that he has chofen, by the fide of the ftream, 
AE hough they: live lonely .in the fummer,: when 
they move from one country to .another, they fly 
din little flocks of five or fix, and are heard in the 
airy when the nights are fill. They frequent too 
the mouths.of rivers, and following the waves,, - 
feed upon little worms, or the fpawn of “—s which 
they find on the fand. 
- The-Sarldpiperis very nice food, tong it has 
‘sotier aemufky pte oe amufky {mell, 
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