SANDERLIKG PLOVER. 
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oce'^*”° ’ip its food from the sand amid the roar of the 
numerous flooks, keeping' a low, 
surf'*^**^**'® along the ridges of the tumbling 
jg alighting, the whole scatter about after the 
ahe'*!*'® husily picking up those minute bivalves 
‘Inscribed. As the succeeding wave returns, it 
thp whole of them before it iii one crowded line; 
to s' moment seined by the experienced gunner 
%ii'!r'''^ them in Hank with his destructive shot. The 
alii'i t *''*''’i''ors, after a few aerial meanders, again 
and pursue their usual avocation as busily and 
’lUconcernedly as before. These birds are most 
^ mcrous on extensive sandy beaches in front of the 
Sea*"’ rocks, m.arshe.s, or stones covered with 
•'reed, they seldom make their appearance, 
inci * '?'^nderling is eight inches long, and fourteen 
’V extent; the bill is black, an inch and a 
<i|>i In length, slender, straight, tinted along the 
Sand and exactly formed like that of the 
> the head, neck above, back, scapulars, and 
gray white; the shafts, blackish, and the 
^lack with brownish ash ; shoulder of the wing, 
'‘lack ’ coverts, broadly tipt with white ; quills, 
cxie with a transverse band of vr hito ; the tail 
ssh " I * *'’^**® beyond the wings, and is of a grayish 
l^eiofr" 1 c'^gc^ " ith n hite, the two middle feathers 
(ljj.1^® I cut half an inch longer than the others; eye, 
"'hit "hole lower parts of the plumage, pure 
thre"! naked part of the thighs, black ; feet, 
a c^ch divided to its origin, and bordered with 
hoth'" f most common markings of this bird, 
Vvim *"c,les and females, particularly during the 
the many others occur among them, early in 
Oil thickly marked or spotted with black 
apop, ® crown, back, scapulars, and tertials, so as to 
Oil much mottled, having as much black as white 
plain parts. In many of these I have observed the 
gray plumage coming out about the middle of 
