288 SANDPIPER.

again, and covering them with my hand for some time
they settled down again: next day all four had disap-
peared.”

The authors of the “Catalogue of the Norfolk and |
Suffolk Birds,” say, “Some years since, we saw a
sandpiper flying across a river, attacked by a hawk,
when it instantly dived, and remained under water
until its enemy disappeared: it then emerged and joined
its companions. This bird, when flushed, sometimes
utters a note resembling, as near as possible, that of
the kingfisher.”