. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 156. — Black-bellied Plover. hundreds of thesebeautiful creaturesarose, resemblingfalling silver dol-lars flung into the Fig. 157. — Wilsons Snipe, air, as they whirled them was theplover (Fig. 156), the valuedgolden plover, the killdeer,with its shrill kill-deeoften repeated, the pipingplover, singing peep-peepand many others, all pos-sessing special them was Wilsonssnipe (Fig. 157), the long-. FlG. 158. — \V iLLET. 188 SOME WADING BIRDS legged stilt, sandpiper, and the sanderling. Occasionallythe shy and rare
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 156. — Black-bellied Plover. hundreds of thesebeautiful creaturesarose, resemblingfalling silver dol-lars flung into the Fig. 157. — Wilsons Snipe, air, as they whirled them was theplover (Fig. 156), the valuedgolden plover, the killdeer,with its shrill kill-deeoften repeated, the pipingplover, singing peep-peepand many others, all pos-sessing special them was Wilsonssnipe (Fig. 157), the long-. FlG. 158. — \V iLLET. 188 SOME WADING BIRDS legged stilt, sandpiper, and the sanderling. Occasionallythe shy and rare willet would rise (Fig. 158), or the ruff,famous for its pugnacity. In this interesting throng were the black-necked stilt andseveral phala-ropes — delicate,dainty little crea-tures, active onthe wing, andamong the mostbeautiful of thisvast of the larg-est of these birds is the long-billed curlew (Fig. 159), which Ihave found on the dry mesa, two miles from the Pacific, atSanta Monica. They were so actively engaged in pickingup grasshoppers that by keeping behindmy horse and walking in a constantly de-creasing circle I came within a fewyards of them, and had an excel-lent opportunity to watch famed wood-
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