135 
SANDERLING. 
CALIDRIS ARENJIRIJI. 
[Plate LXIII.— Fig. 3.] 
Ruddy Plover, Arct. Zool. No. 404.— Lath. Syn. v. 3, p. 195, No. 2.—Charadrius rubidus, 
Ind. Orn. p* 740, No. 2. 
THIS bird, which has hitherto been named the Ruddj^ Plover, 
and thought a distinct species, is frequently found in company with 
the Sanderling, which, except in color, it exactly resembles. It is 
generally seen on the seacoast of New Jersey in May and October, 
on its way to and from its breeding place in the north. It runs 
with great activity, along the edge of the flowing or retreating 
waves, on the sands, picking up the small bivalve shell-fish, which 
supply so many multitudes of the Plover and Sandpiper tribes. 
I am now satisfied that this bird is the Sanderling itself, in a 
different dress. Of many scores which I examined scarcely two 
were alike ; in some the plumage of the back was almost plain ; 
in others the black plumage was just shooting out. This was m 
the month of October. In the month of May, on Egg-Harbor 
beach, I observed large flocks of Sanderlings ; some of them light- 
colored above ; many with the black and red, feathers black, tipt 
white, and edged red. One male specimen was very light-colored, 
but on separating the plumage, the young feathers were observed 
coming out thickly, and all these last were black, tipt white, and 
edged with red chalk. Naturalists, however, have considered this 
as a separate species ; but have given us no further particulars than 
that “ in Hudson’s bay it is known by the name of Mistchaychekis- 
kaweshish a piece of information certainly very instructive. 
Latham. 
