Having done with the Plovers we come to the fowl

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of the waters, and I am much perplexed how to deal with them. The monsoon has scarcely ended when the saltpans and still flooded rice fields on the other side of the harbour are alive with long-legged waders and web-footed swimmers of many sizes and shapes. Snipe and Curlew, Stint and Sandpiper, Heron and Cormorant, Duck and Teal, seem to have arrived by one train, and having no home to go to, are wandering