PLOVER. 323 



8.— RUDDY PLOVER. 



Charadrius rubidus, Ind. Om. ii. 740. Gin. Lin. i. G88. Tern. Man. 335. Id. Ed. 



2d. 525. 

 Grauwe Plevier, Sepp, iii. pi. 283. f. 2. 

 Ruddy Plover, Gen. Syn. v. 195. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 404. Amer. Orn. vii. 120. pi. 



63. f. 3. 



BILL straight, one inch long, black ; head, neck, breast, scapu- 

 lars, wing and tail coverts, of a ruddy colour, spotted with black, 

 and powdered with while ; in the scapulars and coverts the black 

 prevails; the outer webs of the first four quills are brown, the 

 inner white, tipped with brown ; the upper parts of the others white; 

 the lower brown ; the two middle tail feathers brown, edged with 

 rust; the others dirty white ; legs black, toes divided to their origin. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay, and called Mistchayche kiska weshish. 

 The female said to be deep brown above, with rufous markings, 

 and more dusky beneath. I do not find the size mentioned, but we 

 suspect it may be allied to the Sanderling, which we know differs 

 much in plumage at different times of growth, or season. Said 

 to breed in considerable numbers on the north Georgian Islands, 

 found there by Captain Parry in his Northern Expedition, in the 

 years 1819 and 1820. 



9.— SPOTTED SANDERLING. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill one, black ; head pale grey, with 



blackish markings ; neck behind with obsolete dusky streaks ; back 



and scapulars spotted dusky and white, each feather being dusky, 



with two or three white spots on each web ; lesser wing coverts brown, 



the rest mixed cinereous white and brown ; lower order white at the 



ends, forming an oblique stripe across the wing; quills blackish, 



with white shafts ; the four first within nearly white, except at the 



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