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trixga aeenabia. 
SUBGENUS Ul. — CALIDBIS, ILLIGER. 
223. TRINOA JRENARIA, LINN. — CHASADSIVS CALIHRIS, 
SAXDEllLING PLOVER, 
WIL.SOK, PLATE LIX, FIG, IV. —WINTER ORES.S, 
In^ this M ell knowu hird wc have another proof 
the imperfoctiou of systematic arrangement, where nO 
attention is paid to the general habits, hut where oii^ 
.sing’Ie circumstance is somefinies considered sufticieO^ 
to determine the species. The genus plover is charac* 
tenzed by several strong family traits, one of which i* 
that of wanting the hind toe. The sandpipers hav*’ 
also their peculiar external characters of bill, general 
% which they are easily distinguished froB* 
1 T**? .species, though pos.sessin!! 
tne bill, general figure, manners, and voice of the sand' 
pipers, feeding in the same way, and associatinir witi* 
these in particular, yet wanting the hind toe, lias hecB 
cktssed with the plovers, with whom, this sinMe cif 
cumstance excepted, it has no one characterfstic b' 
common. Though we have not, in the present instaui* 
presumed to alter this arrangement, yet it appeal^, 
both rcasonahle and natural that, where the specifi*' 
characters in any hird seem to waver hetw'eon tcB 
species, the figure, voice, and habits of the couivof'J 
one, should always be taken into consideration, ai“* 
he allowed hnally to determine the class to w hich '* 
belongs. Had this rule been followed in the prc.scB* 
instance the hird we are now about to describe wo«l^ 
have undoubtedly been classed with the sandpipers. 
Ihe history ot this species has little in it to oxcK' 
our interest or attoution. It makes its appearance o’' 
our sea coasts early ,u September, coutimiVs during 
greater part of winter, and on the approach of spriu? 
returns to the northern regions to breed. While herft 
it seems perpetually busy riiuning along the wave-wot'* 
strand, following the flux and reflux of the surf, eagei'l/ 
