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the accompanying cut. Togetliev with Plinucniellt/s sociahilis, from Magelhaen's 

 Strait, and the surf-bird (Aj>/iriza virffata), found on our western coast up to Alaska, 

 they constitute the sub-family Arenariinaj. The Hajmatopodinaj consists of a single, 

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

 globe, except the very Arctic regions. There are two styles of them, — one bl.ack 

 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 



Flo. V). — yaiulliu vanelliu, peewit, lapvrlng. 



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

 warning all other birds with their penetrating cry. 



n.e Cliaradrun;u jiroper are cosmopolitan in their <listribution, embracing the dif- 

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

 ularly characterized l)y the form of tlie bill, wliich is somewhat like that of a piireon, 

 convex anteriorly and restricted at base. Deing well-known birds we shall save sjiace 

 for more unusual forms by only referring to the drawing.s (Fig. 42), and by quoting 

 the following, from Seebohm, conccrnins the peewit or lajiwing (Vanellit.t vnneUiis, 

 Fig. 45), which is a strictly Pahearctic bird, sometimes straggling to Greenland and 

 Ala.ska. " The flight of this bird is very erratic and peculiar. Its wings arc very 



