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Identifier: americangameinit00herb (find matches)
Title: American game in its seasons
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, G.E. Woodward (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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course tried in vain. It rests to see what incul-cating a spirit of sportsmanship may do ; but I am littlesanguine, seeing that true sportsmanship, like the gameit fain would, but cannot, j)rotect, decreases year byyear—many of those who boast themselves sportsmen,and here an I would I could name names, doing deedsthe foullest pot-hunter would shrink from, and holdingthemselves as high as ever in their own esteem, tlioughlower than the lowest in the judgment of the judicious. Be this, however, as it may be, the only hope is in theefforts of the honorable sportsman, and so let him hope-ful ever of the best, hold the helm steady, steer onthrough squall or hurricane, and never—whatever be-tide—never give up the ship ! VI. JUHE. Cj)c ;vci:r-htiistcir Siu;C. Scolopax Novel oracensis. EOBm SNIPE, QUAIL SNIPE, DOWITCHER.THE IIUDSONIAN GODWIT. Limosa ITudsonica. EING-TAILED MAELIN. NORTH AMERICA; LABRADOR TO THE GULF, Clje Salman Salmo Salar.LABRADOR; BRITISH PROVINCES: STATE OF MAINE.
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1 e THE SNIPE. THE HUDSONIAN GODwiT.—Limosa HudsoTiica, VulgO. RING-TAILED MARLIN. THE RED-BEEASTED SNIPE.—Scolojjjax Novebovacensis. VulgO. ROBIN-BREAST, QUAIL SNIPE, DOWITCHER. Under the general, and very incorrect appellation ofBay Snipe, and sometimes of Plover, tlie sea-shore gun-ners, and city fowlers who accompany them for pleasure,are wont to include many totally distinct and differentfamilies of waders, each containing several varieties, andall, though in some sort connected, entirely dissimilar incharacteristics, plumage, cry and flight, as well as insome peculiarities of habit. Of these families, the most remarkable are the Curlew,numenius / the Godwit, limosa / the Sandpiper, tringa /the Tattler, totanus / the Plover, charadrius j the Snipe,scolo^ax I the Turnstone, strejpsilas , the Sanderling, ca-lidris / the Avoset, recurvirosta / and the Stilt, himanto-piis I all of which at some period of the year are visitersor temporary inhabitants of some portion of the Atlanti

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