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SANDERLING PLOVER 



per much mottled, having as much black as white on those parts. 

 In many of these I have observed the plain grey plumage coming 

 out about the middle of October ; so that, perhaps, the grey may 

 be their winter, and the spotted their summer dress. 



I have also met with many specimens of this bird, not only 

 thickly speckled with white and black above, but also on the neck, 

 and strongly tinged on both with ferruginous ; in which dress it 

 has been mistaken by Mr. Pennant and others for a new species ; 

 the description of his " Ruddy Plover" agreeing exactly with this.* 

 A figure of the Sanderling in this state of plumage will be intro- 

 duced in some part of the present work. 



* See Arct. Zool. p. 486, No. 404. 



