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CIIARADRIUS RUBIDUS. 
October, so that, perhaps, the gray maybe their 
and the spotted their snmmer dress. 
I have also met with many specimens of this bii^ 
not only thickly speckled with white and black abo)'* 
but also on the neck, and strongly tinged on both o'ir 
ferruginous, in which dress it has been mistaken '• 
Mr Pennant and others for a new species ; the df? 
cription of bis “ ruddy plover” agreeing e.\-actly n'* 
this. * 
224. ciijjtJDsius nuniDus, wilson. 
RUDDT rLOVEn.. 
WILSO^r, PLATE Lxin. riG. lll.f SUMXrER DRESS. 
This bird is frequently found in company with tb' 
eanderling, which, except in colour, it very 
resembles. It is generally seen on the sea coast ^ 
New Jersey in May and October, on its way to a" 
from its breeding place in the north. It runs n’i''' 
great activity along the edge of the flowing or retre*'' 
ing n aves on tlie sands, picking up the small bival*' 
shell-flsh, which supplies so many multitudes of 
plover and sandpiper tribes. 
I should not be surprised if the present species tut! 
out hereafter to be the sanderling itselt^ in a differ*''' 
dress. Of many scores which I examined, scarce t”'* 
were alike; in some the plumage of the back 
almost plain, in others the black plumage was .i"“ 
Mooting out. This was in the month of Octol)*’^' 
Naturalists, however, have considered it as a separf** 
species ; but have given us no farther particulars th"^, 
that, in Iludsoii’s Bay, it is knon n by the name 
Mistchaychekiskaweshish,”|_a piece of informati*’' 
certainly very instructive. 
* Sec Arctic Zoology, p. 486, No. 404. 
f This bird is the sanderling plover in its summer dress, 
t L.vtham. 
