| 216 .. Mr. Peabody on the 
The PunPLE Sanppirer, Tringa maritima, is 
another of these wanderers, which abounds in au- 
tumn, and is sold in the market at Boston, but is 
less common in other parts of the United States. 
They fly in flocks of eight or ten, avoiding sandy 
beaches, and alighting on rocky shores; from which 
peculiarity in their habits, they are sometimes called 
rock snipes, by the fowlers. Audubon did not find 
them breeding at Labrador, but Dr. Richardson says 
that they breed abundantly on the shores of Hud- 
son’s Bay. 
The Lrrrue Sanppirer, Tringa pusilla, which 
is, as Dr. Brewer informs us, the same with Wilson’s 
Sandpiper, is known by the name of Peep, and is 
found, in its season, on all the shores and in all 
the markets of the Union. It goes to the north 
to breed, like the rest of the tribe; but returns in 
the early summer, in large flocks, roving from place 
to place in search of food. Its bill is pointed and 
flexible ; and in order to collect its fare of worms and 
insects, the bill is inserted in the mud or wet sand, 
after the manner of the woodcock. This bird leaves 
us before the fall of the leaf, and passes the winter 
in distant southern regions. 
The Kxor, or Asm-coLonEp SawpPiPER, Trin- 
ga cinerea, appears on our coast in May, on its way 
to the north, whence it returns before the end of 
summer, and is seen in large flocks, collecting small 
shell fish along the strand, moving with great adroit- 
ness under the edge of the waves. "The shell fish 
