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the naiiK^ of " I'lovor's J'.-igc." During the hropding-soason it is not sepn ahing tlu- 

 shores. The young h'ave the nest iuiniediately after exchision, run about, and when 

 ahirmed, conceal themselves l)y sitting dose to the ground and remaining motionless. 

 If, during incubation, a person approaches their retreat, the nuiie — and frecpiently 

 tho female also — flies to meet the intruder, and employs the same artifices for deeoy- 

 ing him from tiu' nest or young as tiie Plover does. When the young are fledgcii, 

 the birds gather into flock.s, often joining tho.so of the (lolden I'lover, resting at 

 night on the ground in the smoother jjurts of the heath. When an intruder ap- 

 proaches such a Hock, the birds stretch tlu>ir wings up as if preparing for flight, ntttr 

 a few low notes, and either stand on the alert or run a few steps. Toward the end 

 of August they betake themselves to tlu^ sandy shores. On a large sand ford in 

 IIarri.s, JMr. ]\[acgillivray lias, at this season, seen many thousands at once run- 

 ning about with extrenm activity in search of food, the place seeming to be a general 

 rendezvous. Mr. Newton states that Dr. Paulsen has more than once received 

 this species from Greenland, i)oth young and in the autumnal pliiiiuige. It brei 

 there, and also on the Melville Veninsula, as well as elsewhere in the coast of Davi 

 Strait. 



I have eggs in my eollection taken in North Greenland ; but whether belonging to 

 this form or to the americdmi, I am not sure. There is no perceptible difference in 

 the eggs of the two species, so far as is known. Greenland specimens, perhaps of 

 the American form, are slightly larger than the average European. 



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Felidna subarquata 



THE CUBIEW SANDPIPER. 



Scolo}mx subarqita/a, Gvut. Nov. C'oiiiin. Petrop. XIX. 17/5, 471, pi. 18. — O.meu S. N. I. 1788, G'jS. 

 Tringa subarqiiata, Te.mm. Man. I. 181,''., 393; II. 1&20, 609. — XrTT. Mnn. II. 1834, 1C4. — Ai ii. 



Om. IJiog. 1835, 444 ; Syiiop. 1839, 234 ; II. Am. V. 1842, 2<i9, pi. 333 ; Ca.ss. in niur.r.s W. N. 



Am. 1858, 718. — Uviui), Cat. X. Am. B. 1859, no. 529. — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 425 ; 



Birds N. W. 1874, 491. 

 Pdidiia stiiarquala, KiDow. Proc. U. S. Nat. Miw. vol. 3, 1881, 200; Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 



540. 

 Triiuja (Ancylochrihts) mlmrqttnla, Bonap. Cat. Mi'l. 1842, 60. — CouES, Key, 1872, 256. 

 Annjlochihis subarquni lis, Coi'es, Check List, 2d I'd. 1882, no. 625. 

 Scolopax africamts, (i.MEL. S. X. I. 1788, 655. 

 Numcnius pijgm(tus, Bei'ii.st. Xaturg. IVutschl. IV. 148. 

 ? Tringn Ulandica, Beiz. Fn. Suoo. 1800, 192. 

 ? Tringa fcrruginca, Hhcnn. Orii. Bor. 1764, no. 180. 

 Trgiign falcinelh, Pali.. Zoog. l!o.sso-As. II. 1811, 188. 

 Piliihia vuicrnrhijHcha, Hkeiim, Viig. Doutsdil. 1831, 658. 

 Ern/iii varicgatit, ViEILI,. Analyso, 1816, 55. 

 ^rolin varid, ViEll.I,. Gal. Ois. II. 1831, 89, pi. 231. 

 "Scolopnx Dftlmrdingii, ."<iem,ss!-.s." ((iuAY.) 

 " Frtlcmcllus ciirsorius, Te.mm." (Coue.s.) 



Had. The Old World in general ; O(xasionnl in Ea.stern North America. 



Sp. Char. Adult, summer j^liimage: Back and .'<capnlar.s variegated with black and rusty; 

 crown rusty, streaked with black. Head, neck, breast, ."ides, and belly, deep cliestnut-rulbiis ; 

 anal region, also upper and lower tail-coverts, white, spotted with black and tinged with rusty ; 

 wing-coverts and tertials brownish gray, the greater coverts tijtped with white ; primaries and 

 middle tail-featliers dark slate-' olor ; rest of the tail ash-gray, the feathers slightly bonlered 

 with whitish; axillars innnarulate pure white. Winter •plumage: Above, brownish gray, in- 

 distinctly streakefl with darker ; tail-coverts (above and below) inue white, spotted with black ; 

 superciliary stripe and lower parts white, the juguluni indistinctly streaked with grayish. 



