CHJ3RJ1DRIUS RUBIDUS. 
RUDDY PLOVER. 
[Plate LXIIL— Fig. 3.] 
Jlrct. Zool. 404. — Lath. Syn. r. 3, p. 195, JVo. 2. — Turt. 
Syst. p. 415. 
This bird is frequently found in company with the Sander- 
ling, which, except in colour, it very much resembles. It is 
generally seen on the seacoast of New Jersey in May and Oc- 
tober, on its way to and from its breeding place in the north. 
It runs with great activity along the edge of the flowing or re- 
treating waves, on the sands, picking up the small bivalve shell- 
fish, which supply so many multitudes of the Plover and Sand- 
piper tribes. 
I should not be surprised if the present species turn out here- 
after to be the Sanderling itself, in a different dress. Of many 
scores which I examined, scarce two were alike; in some the 
plumage of the back was almost plain; in others the black plu- 
mage was just shooting out. This was in the month of October. 
Naturalists, however, have considered it as a separate species; 
but have given us no further particulars, than that ‘‘in Hudson’s 
Bay it is known by the name of Mistchaychekiskaweshish”t a 
piece of information certainly very instructive! 
The Ruddy Plover is eight inches long, and fifteen in extent: 
the bill is black, an inch long, and straight; sides of the neck, 
and whole upper parts, speckled largely with white, black and 
ferruginous; the feathers being centred with black, tipt with 
white, and edged with ferruginous, giving the bird a very mot- 
* This is the preceding species in perfect summer plumage. 
T Latham. 
