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SANDPIPER, PECTORAL. 
TRINGA PECTORALIS, Jenyns. 
This species inhabits the eastern coasts of North 
America, and is very abundant on those of the New 
England States. A very few individuals have 
been obtained in England. Its habits appear to be 
similar to those of the Dunlin and other species, 
and like the Snipe it is found in damp meadows 
and marshes. Its flight, which resembles that of 
the Knot, is firm and rapid. It runs with great 
agility, and probes the sand or wet earth, immers- 
ing its bill up to the base. 
This species prefer the sea-coasts to the interior. 
They feed on seeds, small crustacea, some kinds of 
sea-weed, insects, &c. Nothing is known of their 
breeding-places, and of the changes of plumage 
which they undergo. 
SANDPIPER, PURPLE. 
TRINGA MARITIMA, Penn. 
Although not extremely rare in England, the 
Purple Sandpipers, which closely resemble the 
Dunlins in their manner of flying and walking, or 
rather running, along the shore, are not very fre- 
