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CIIARADRIUS PLXIVIALIS. 
?ated ^vith blackish spots. They usually fly in small 
flocks, and have a shrill whistling- note. They are 
very frequent in^ Siberia, where they likewise breed : 
extend also to Kamtscliatka, and as far south as the 
reml'r“ « ‘ P*’*®*"' M'’ Peunant 
remarks, they are very small.” 
Although these birds arc occasionally found alonw 
Olir sea coast, from Georgia to Maine, yet they are no 
where numerous; and 1 have never met with them in 
^e iiUerior. Our mountains being generally covered 
with forest, and no species of heath having, as vet, been 
discovered within tlie boundaries of the United States 
these birds are jirobably induced to seek the more’ 
remote arctic regions of the continent to breed and 
rear tlieir young in, where the country is more open, 
and unencumbered n-ith woods. 
twenty-one inches m extent; bill, short, of a dusky 
slate colour; eye very large, blue black; nostrilf 
placed in a deep furrow, and half covered with a prt 
5 '' ''olo upper parts, black, thickly 
marked n itli roundish spots of various lints of o-olden 
yellow; wiiig-coverts and hind part of the necl^ pale 
brown, the latter streaked with yellowish; front, broad 
i.T’ yellowish 
flhite, streaked n-itli small pointed spots of brown 
olive; breast, grey, pith olive and white; sides, under 
the winp marked thinly with transverse bars of pale 
middl’e n*f " inif-quills, black, ^tlie 
middle of the shafts marked with white • creater 
barred'’nM“'i’ ’’“"“''•'d.^black, 
barred with triangular spots of golden yclloiv • leo-s 
daik dusky slate; feet, three-toed, with Generally the’ 
lar as the first joint with the middle one. The male 
and female differ yery little in colour. 
