. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . Part IV %^t Clii6i\)e ^^oUMttiQ Birds of passage sailed through tlie leaden air, from the iee-bonnd,Desolate 7iorthern bays to the shores of tropical islands. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS CHAPTER XII THE SHORE PATROL There is a Power whose careTeaches iky way along that pathless coast. Bryant. j^ T certain seasons of the year our shores bordering onZJm ocean and great lake are carefully patrolled by the•^ -^ crews of the Government Life-saving Service. Andthere are seasons, too, w
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . Part IV %^t Clii6i\)e ^^oUMttiQ Birds of passage sailed through tlie leaden air, from the iee-bonnd,Desolate 7iorthern bays to the shores of tropical islands. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS CHAPTER XII THE SHORE PATROL There is a Power whose careTeaches iky way along that pathless coast. Bryant. j^ T certain seasons of the year our shores bordering onZJm ocean and great lake 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, — Limicolse, dwellers by the shore. It is a varied andnumerous company, represented by forty species in easternNorth America. Though one of these, the Woodcock, prefersthe swampy thickets, and his cousin, Wilsons Snipe, the 204 WILD WINGS thick grass of the meadows, and certahi others are partial tomarshes, dry pasture, or prairie, the decided preference of theOrder is for the margin where land and water meet, whetherit be by ocean, river, lake, or pool. They are waders by natureand generally by practice, and th
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