CHAPTER II. 

 PLOVERS AND SANDPIPERS. 



Characteristics and Affinities necked Phalarope Curlew 

 Changes of Plumage Structural Whimbrel Godwits Black - 

 Characters Oyster - catcher tailed Godwit Bar-tailed God- 

 Ringed Plover Kentish Plover wit Redshank Sander ling 

 GoldenPlover Gray Plover Knot Curlew Sandpiper 

 Lapwing Turnstone Phala- Dunlin Purple Sandpiper 

 ropes Gray Phalarope Red- Other Species. 



IN 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 



