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Bonaparte’s Sandpiper is a large bird and a common autumn visitant.

The Sanderling (Ca/{rink armarz'a) is a light— colored Sandpiper, larger than a Ring-neck Plover. It appears in numbers on the semwashed reefs and dunes of our northern coast, during the autumnal migrations, while the young are in their immature plumage. They are very quiet birds, runningr along the sands ahead of the traveller, bobbing down to pick up seeds or insects, utter- ing a soft, suppressed peep, to preserve the company of the flock, and caringr little while they are a stone’s throw in advance of the intruder. Its presence does much, in the late autumn, to relieve the dreariness of the storm-lashed, desolate dunes by the sea.

The \Villet (SJ/11111115112122 xcmzpaZ/Izam) is a large Sandpiper, being sixteen inches in length. It is lighthsh, speckled with dusky above, and white below. \Villets are restless and noisy birds, mak— ing themselves well known round the marsh which they frequent, but they are not common with us.

The Greater Yellow-legs is a bird something less in size than the \\'illet and of darker color,

but possessing the same gaunt, long-nosed appear—