. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . Z_lZDQ 2i/ o a: Q. Qz<CO OO LONG-BILLED RUNNING BIRDS. 255 Oyster-Catcher in its partiality for rugged, sea-washedrocks. Here, alone or in small parties, and close tothe breaking waves, it runs about searching the sea-weed for the marine insects, small crustaceans, &c. onwhich it feeds. Occasionally an odd bird joins theflocks of Dunlins and other small \f aders on the mud-flats ; from these, however, it is easily distinguished byits plump form mounted on short legs, but chiefly byits very dark plumage, notably the bla
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . Z_lZDQ 2i/ o a: Q. Qz<CO OO LONG-BILLED RUNNING BIRDS. 255 Oyster-Catcher in its partiality for rugged, sea-washedrocks. Here, alone or in small parties, and close tothe breaking waves, it runs about searching the sea-weed for the marine insects, small crustaceans, &c. onwhich it feeds. Occasionally an odd bird joins theflocks of Dunlins and other small \f aders on the mud-flats ; from these, however, it is easily distinguished byits plump form mounted on short legs, but chiefly byits very dark plumage, notably the black tract fromrump to tail. Like the Turnstone, the Purple Sand-piper will swim on a calm sea. Its note is a piping WheetwLet! KNOT.—Plate 108. 10 inches. Crown and upperparts mottled with brown, gray, and buff, becomingwhite, flushed strongly with chestnut, on the rump,with black bars before the tail; face and under partschestnut; bill stout, straight, black; legs black. Inwinter ashy-gray above, but white, with blackishbars, towards the tail; under parts white, withdark str
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