. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. UP THE RIVER 385 was a bob-tailed Rail — one was a Snipe with far-back eyes and a finger-beak like a Woodcock's — one was a Spotted Sandpiper that teeters and whistles ' tweet- weet' — and the other was a tiny little Sandpiper with a very sad gyj. Now do you know them ? " "Famous! " lauglied the Doctor ; "of course I know them after ; " Do they all belong to the same family ? " persisted Dodo, whose little head was beginning to swim wdth all this new knowledge it had to hold. &q
. Citizen bird: scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners. Birds. UP THE RIVER 385 was a bob-tailed Rail — one was a Snipe with far-back eyes and a finger-beak like a Woodcock's — one was a Spotted Sandpiper that teeters and whistles ' tweet- weet' — and the other was a tiny little Sandpiper with a very sad gyj. Now do you know them ? " "Famous! " lauglied the Doctor ; "of course I know them after ; " Do they all belong to the same family ? " persisted Dodo, whose little head was beginning to swim wdth all this new knowledge it had to hold. "Not all of them. The Snipe and both the Sand- pipers belong to one famil}^, the same as that of the Woodcock ; but the Rail belongs to a different family. So also does the Plover you learned this morning. The three families of Snipes, Plovers, and Rails are the largest ones of all the tribe of Birds that Paddle and AVade by the \n^ ^-*-=^ sea-shore. The Rails from their size and shape are sometimes called Marsh Hens. The Turnstone belongs to a fourth family, but it is a very small one. Now I will give you the tables of the four kinds of birds you have learned this af- ternoon.' 2c. Spotted Sandpiper,. 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 Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. New York : The Macmillan company
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