. . river, Brown-back, and Bay Bird. Thegeneric name Macrorhamphvs is derived from two Greekwords—makros, meaning large, and rhamphos, meaningbill. The specific name griseus means gray, and probablyhas reference to the grayish color of the winter plumage. The dowitchers are the most numerous of the seasidesnipes. At the retreat of the tide, flocks will frequentlysettle on the shore in such large numbers and so closetogether that several dozen have been killed at a single shot. Mr. Chapman tells us that they migrate in compactflocks,
. . river, Brown-back, and Bay Bird. Thegeneric name Macrorhamphvs is derived from two Greekwords—makros, meaning large, and rhamphos, meaningbill. The specific name griseus means gray, and probablyhas reference to the grayish color of the winter plumage. The dowitchers are the most numerous of the seasidesnipes. At the retreat of the tide, flocks will frequentlysettle on the shore in such large numbers and so closetogether that several dozen have been killed at a single shot. Mr. Chapman tells us that they migrate in compactflocks, which are easily attracted to decoys by an imitationof their call. Mud-flats and bars exposed by the fallingtide are their chosen feeding grounds. On the Gulf Coastof Florida I have seen several hundred gathered in suchclose rank that they entirely concealed the sandbar onwhich they were resting. In summer the general color of these birds is darkbrown and the feathers are more or less edged with a red-dish tinge. Underneath, the general color is light cinna-. M BI3 s SHORE BIRDS 1<T/ mon, with white on the belly. In the winter the plumage is more gray and the under parts are much lighter in color. This bird usually lays four eggs of a buffy-olive color, which are marked by brown, especially near the larger end. THE KNOT OR ROBIN SNIPE* The Knot or Robin Snipe is a bird of several names, asit is also called the Red-breasted, Ash-colored Sandpiper,the Gray-back, and the Gray Snipe. It is quite cosmo-politan, breeding in the far North of both hemispheres, butin winter migrating southward and wintering in the climateof the southern United States and Central America. Theknot belongs to the snipe family, which includes one hun-dred or more species, about forty-five of which are inhab-itants of North America. Nearly all the species breed inthe higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere. Thesebirds frequent the shores of large bodies of water, and areseldom observed far from thei
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