. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . CijE Clust\)E ^i)ort=Birtis Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air, from the northern bays to the shores of tropieal islands. SEMITALMATED SANDPIPERS CHAPTER XII THE SHORE PATROL There is a Power whose careTeaehes thy way along that pathless eoast. Bryant. \^ T certain seasons of the year our shores bordering on/ \ ocean and great lal^e are carefully patrolled by the-^ -^ crews of the Government Life-saving Service. Andthere are seasons, too, when
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . CijE Clust\)E ^i)ort=Birtis Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air, from the northern bays to the shores of tropieal islands. SEMITALMATED SANDPIPERS CHAPTER XII THE SHORE PATROL There is a Power whose careTeaehes thy way along that pathless eoast. Bryant. \^ T certain seasons of the year our shores bordering on/ \ ocean and great lal^e are carefully patrolled by the-^ -^ crews of the Government Life-saving Service. Andthere are seasons, too, when a feathered host is on patrol,suffering few castaways — of a certain class — to be longneglected. Science has a concise and suggestive name forthem, — Limicolae, dwellers by the shore. It is a varied andnumerous company, represented by forty species in easternNorth America. Though one of these, the Woodcock, prefersthe SAvampy thickets, and his cousin, Wilsons Snipe, the r 204 WILD WINGS tliick grass of the meadows, and certain otliers are partial t(marshes, dry pasture, or prairie, the decided ])referenee of tinOrder is for the maryin where land and water meet, wluthciit be b} ocean, ri\er, lake, or pool. Thev are waders by naturtand generalh by [jractice, a
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