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filled with small snails, periwinkle shellfish, some kind of 

 mossy vegetable food, and a number of aquatic insects. The 

 intestines were infested with tape-worms, and a number of 

 smaller bot-1 ike worms, some of which wallowed in the cavity 

 of the abdomen. 



In Mr Peale's collection there is one of this same species, 

 said to have been brought from New Holland, differing little 

 in the markings of its plumage from our own. The red brown 

 on the neck does not descend so far, scarcely occupying any 

 of the breast ; it is also somewhat less. 



In every stuffed and dried specimen of these birds which I 

 have examined, the true form and flexure of the bill is alto- 

 gether deranged, being naturally of a very tender and delicate 

 substance.* 



RUDDY PLOVER. (Charadrius rubidus.) 



PLATE LXIIL— Fig. 3. 



Arct. Zool. No. 404.— Lath. Syn. hi. p. 195, No. 2.—Turt. Syst. p. 415. 



CALIDBIS ABE NAM A.- Illigee. 



Tringa arenaria, Bonap. Synop. p. 320. 



This bird is frequently found in company with the sanderling, 

 which, except in colour, it very much resembles. It is gene- 

 rally seen on the sea-coast of New Jersey in May and October, 

 on its way to and from its breeding place in the north. It 

 runs with great activity along the edge of the flowing or 

 retreating waves on the sands, picking up the small bivalve 



* Mr Ord further observes, " It is remarkable that in the Atlantic 

 States this species invariably affects the neighbourhood of the ocean, 

 we never having known an instance of its having been seen in the 

 interior ; and yet Captain Lewis met with this bird at the ponds in the 

 vicinity of the Falls of the Missouri. That it was our species I had 

 ocular evidence by a skin brought by Captain Lewis himself, and pre- 

 sented, among other specimens of natural history, to the Philadelphia 

 Museum." See '"' History of Lewis and Clark's Expedition," vol. ii. p. 

 343. 



