CERUAR RE Ron 
PLOVERS AND SANDPIPERS. 
Characteristicsand A ffinities— necked Phalarope — Curlew — 
Changes of Plumage—Structural Whimbrel — Godwits — Black - 
Characters — Oyster - catcher — tailed Godwit— Bar-tailed God- 
Ringed Plover—Kentish Plover wit— Redshank—Sanderling— 
—Golden Plover—Gray Plover— Knot — Curlew Sandpiper — 
Lapwing — Turnstone — Phala- Dunlin— Purple Sandpiper — 
ropes —Gray Phalarope — keda- Other Species. 
N the present chapter we commence the study 
of an entirely different class of birds. The 
Gulls are for the most part seen flying in the air 
or swimming upon the sea, but the Plovers and the 
Sandpipers spend the greater part of their time 
on the ground. Again, Gulls, when adult, are 
remarkably showy birds, but the Plovers and allied 
species are just as inconspicuous. Many of the 
haunts frequented by Gulls are utterly unsuited 
to the Plovers and Sandpipers. These principally 
delight in low sandy coasts, mud-flats, slob-lands, 
and salt marshes. Rocks and ranges of cliff have 
no attraction for these little feathered runners of 
the shore; they obtain their food on the shallow 
margin of the sea, on the sand and shingle, the 
