. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. WILSON S SNIPE. they run before the water. As the sheet of surf recedes, down they run after it, to pick up whatever of insect or other edible animal life ' Ac-io-dro'mas rnin-u-til'la. Average length, LE.\ST S.\ND-PIPER. But their day of doom is not far distant. There is in every country on earth a lawless, miscreant element which is devoid of all love for Nature and wild life, and which sticks at nothing in the line of destruction. It pollutes streams, dynam
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. WILSON S SNIPE. they run before the water. As the sheet of surf recedes, down they run after it, to pick up whatever of insect or other edible animal life ' Ac-io-dro'mas rnin-u-til'la. Average length, LE.\ST S.\ND-PIPER. But their day of doom is not far distant. There is in every country on earth a lawless, miscreant element which is devoid of all love for Nature and wild life, and which sticks at nothing in the line of destruction. It pollutes streams, dynamites fish, poisons dogs, steals ash-cans and swill-pails, and kills song-birds for "; Some day, alas! the evil eye of this bad breed will fall upon the flocks of Sand-Pipers by the sea, and on the shores of inland lake, pond and stream. Then the little gray clouds will quickly vanish forever. To-day, however, both the species mentioned above are found sprinkled throughout the whole eastern United States, and they breed northward cjuite up to the arctic Barren Cirounds. Where^'er they are, the}' are interesting birds, and worthy of your friendship. The Long-Billed Curlew^ is a bird which has caused much wonderment and many guesses in the Middle West, where on the virgin prairies it once was frequently' seen. This bird's trick of holding its wings high above its back for two or three seconds after it alights upon the ground alwaj's attracts special attention. Its cry, also, oft repeated in spring, is very weird and pe- culiar, and well calculated to make the bird remembered. This bird once was common on the rolling ^ Nv-inen'i-vs lon-gi-ros'tris. Average length, about 23 inches; bill of adult bird, about 8 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-19
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