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the accompanying cut. Together with Pluvianellus sociabilis, from Magelhaen's 

 Strait, and the surf-bird (Aphriza virgata), found on our western coast up to Alaska, 

 they constitute the sub-family Areuariinie. The Hsematopodinae consists of a single 

 genus, the different forms of which are distributed over nearly all the shores of the 

 globe, except the very Arctic regions. There are two styles of them, one black 

 and white, like the European oyster-catcher on the foregoing page, and another 

 wholly black, both with intensely red beaks and reddish flesh-colored feet. They are 



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FIG. 45. Vanellus vaneltus, peewit, lapwing. 



very noisy and shy, and make themselves disagreeably conspicuous to the shore-hunter, 



warning all other birds with their penetrating cry. 



The ChavadriinaB proper are cosmopolitan in their distribution, embracing the dif- 

 ent kinds of plovers, being the most numerous group of the family, and are partic- 

 rly characterized by the form of the bill, which is somewhat like that of a pigeon, 



convex anteriorly and restricted at base. Being well-known birds we shall save space 

 unusual forms by only referring to the drawings (Fig. 42), and by quoting 



the tollowmg, from Seebohm, concerning the peewit or lapwing (Vanellus vanelhts, 



^ig. 45), which is a strictly Palsearctic bird, sometimes straggling to Greenland and 

 The flight of this bird is very erratic and peculiar, 'its wings are very 



