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Title: Feathered game of the Northeast
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Rich, Walter Herbert, 1866-
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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very similar. When you flush him he goes skimming awayjust above the water; alighting on a rock at theedge, he stretches his wings aloft to their full-est extent, then carefully folds them so that each feather is in its proper place, and begins feeding again, gathering the insects, slugs and water bugs with the healthy appetite common to all citizens of the great out-of-doors. He is a beautiful bird, though modestly ap-pareled; something smaller than either win-ter or summer yellow-legs, but built on the same graceful lines and plainly showing all the characteristics of his family—long in the legs,strong of wing, and equally good at the table as are the other two. I think he makes a good im-pression when, after being skinned, wrapped in a thin piece of fat pork and enclosed in a big po-tato he has been well baked. Sometimes in the sea marshes when the tide is rising a number of these birds may be cap-tured by taking a stand among the pond-holes near high water mark, of course being well hid-
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QiPJQ- OuQZ <if) < -JO CO THE SOLITARY SANDPIPER 191 den, and shooting them as they come in fromthe flooded lower levels. As you arrive youeast a glance along the mud and ooze, and see-ing nothing, turn away. Just then a slightmotion catches your eye and what had seemeda small lump of mud suddenly changes into avery lively little bird, bobbing and bowing atyou very politely and not more than twentyyards away. Now he extends his wings up-ward to their full spread and jets his tail as heruns nimbly along, then one downward strokeof his pinions and he rises lightly from theground and skims away just above the surfaceof the pool. Perhaps he is a young bird or hasbeen but little disturbed and so knows not thedanger of his situation, in which case he may goten yards and alight again to gaze with curi-ous eyes. There is scarcely another bird whichflies with so little apparent effort. His strokesare slow and regular, a short sailing betweeneach motion, but he moves very fast. Let himbe

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