A very common Sandpiper in the British Isles and in Europe, but only casually occurring as a straggler along the Atlantic coast.
This species is only an accidental straggler in Greenland.
Something on the bridge had caught her eye; and, in fact, over the side rails of that structure the head and shoulders of a straggler could be seen advancing slowly, staggering along under the weight of a heavy load.
That straggler would be the blood offering to the sea!
As the Missionary gazed on the animated spectacle, a straggler from the camp approached to gather fruit from the tree under which he stood, and the Missionary inquired if the troops he beheld were those of Aurengzebe?
They had been waiting a couple of hours, and the peewit's cry had been uttered from time to time, but only a straggler or two had landed upon the strip of land.
The true Yellow-shafted Flicker, the familiar bird of the Eastern States, is occasionally taken as a straggler during the fall migrations.
State, that of a straggler taken near Seattle in October, 1907.
At home the Pipit is a very different creature from the straggler of the long trail.
Every moment or two a straggler was added to my audience; and before I got to the head of the island I had fifteen or twenty people assembled down there under my nose.
This began to bring in one straggler after another from the ranks of the new-fledged pilots, in the dull (summer) season.
If a stragglersupposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard.
Not a single unwounded straggler came back to White House from the field, and the number of wounded reaching there up to 11 A.
The black-bellied tree-duck is only met with as a straggler north of Chihuahua, Mexico.
The clapper is only a straggler south of San Francisco bay.
An occasional straggler is killed as far south as San Francisco, but they are a cold country bird.
Our entire forces bore themselves bravely; not a straggler in the command, they all came splendidly up to the work, and the whole affair was graced with signal instances of personal valor.
I should do injustice to the brave men who thus moved forward to the conflict in such perfect order, were I to omit to record that not one straggler lagged behind to sully the magnificence and perfectness of the grand battle array.
The Woodcock is found in all countries of the eastern hemisphere where trees grow; but it is only met as a straggler on the Atlantic coast of the United States.
It comes as a straggler to our country from spring to autumn; only, unfortunately, to be shot as a 'specimen'.
This species is only a rare straggler to Great Britain.
It is safe to assert there was not a singlestraggler in Von Bülow's army.
Amid the vines, here and there a writhing figure could be seen, or a wounded horse endeavoring to rise, and here and there a straggler striving to escape.
A returning straggler brings the crushing news that the San Juan military depot has been captured by a smart dash of the American volunteers under Fremont and Gillespie.
Every rebel straggler is instantly searched as he is swept in.
It is probably a rare stragglerto western Micronesia.
It is a straggler to Oceania and has not been recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.
It is probably an occasional straggler to the area, but owing to its similarity to Gallinago megala it may not often be recognized in the field.
Apparently the owl came to Ponape as a straggler on migration from Asia, and becoming acclimated and adapted to the grassy areas at Ponape remained as a resident.
The Common Coot is a straggler to Micronesia in winter.
This crake is apparently a straggler to western Micronesia from the Philippine area.
The gull is considered a straggler to the northern Marianas from the northward.
The Common Cuckoo is a straggler on winter migration to the Palau Islands.
It is recorded as a straggler to the Caroline and Mariana islands.
It is generally seen in Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall in November, but never breeds there, and it is seldom that a straggler finds his way further north.
The highest point at which I saw a swallow last summer was at the glacier of the Rhone, where Anderegg pointed me out a single straggler as a curiosity: but later in the year they are probably bolder.
Here and there some worn-out straggler or wounded man had crawled into shade, and lay heedless of the turmoil.
We waited motionless until the last straggler had disappeared.
Not a soldier left the ranks; not a straggler was to be seen.
Entertaining a high contempt for the French force, as consisting almost entirely of infantry, this splendid barbaric chivalry watched every opportunity for charging them, nor did a single stragglerescape the unrelenting edge of their sabres.
Half trembling lest the bird should prove to be somestraggler from the tropics, the like of which would not be found in the cabinet before mentioned, I went thither that very evening.
Far and near the ground was white, but just at this place the snow-plough had scraped bare a few square feet of earth, and by great good fortune this solitary and hungry straggler had hit upon it.
Now it is only a straggler or two; now a considerable flock of some one species; and now a miscellaneous collection of perhaps a dozen sorts.
This is a straggler from the north, a specimen of which was obtained by White near Oran in 1880.
A straggler captured at Glasgow gave us some "grape vine" intelligence which annoyed us no little.
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