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whitish streak along by the eye, from the upper part of the bill. 

 Under parts white (or very nearly so) excepting lower part of 

 neck and the fore breast, which are streakily grayish. 



No. 53. Winter Plumage. 



Length eight and a half inches ; extent fifteen inches. 



The range of this species includes our whole country ; in tlie 

 fall it is numerous along the sea-coast, often collecting in very 

 large flocks. ISTo apolog}^ is necessary for introducing it here ; 

 it has (notwithstanding its diminutive size) appeared many times 

 in lists of gunners' birds ; is plump and palatable in the autumn, 

 and affords some sport even to adults, when bigger birds are 

 absent. A record of its aliases may also prevent us from con- 

 fusing it with other species. 



DUNLIN: more correctly AMERICAN DUNLIN (to distinguish it 

 from the European dunlin, T. aljv'na) : RED-BACKED SANDPIPER: 

 AMERICAN RED-BACKED SANDPIPER : BLACK-BELLIED SAND- 

 PIPER: BLACK-BREASTED SANDPIPER: PURRE (Pennant, 1785): 

 OX-BIRD (Nuttall, 1834). 



Wilson (1813) speaks of its being known " along the shores 

 of New Jersey" as the RED-BACK; and Mcllwraith, in Birds of 

 Ontario, 1886, mentions it as the "BLACK -HEART PLOVER of 

 sportsmen;" and again as BLACK-HEART simply, and we find 

 this latter form in E. E. T. Seton's Birds of "Western Manitoba, 

 Auk, April, 1886. In Forest and Stream, Nov. 18, 1886, " X.Y. Z." 

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