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CHARADRIUS RUBIDUS. 
October, so that, perhaps, the gray maybe their winter, 
and the spotted their summer dress. 
I have also met with many specimens of this bird, 
not only thickly speckled with white and black above, 
but also on the neck, and strongly tinged on both with 
ferruginous, in which dress it has been mistaken by 
Mr Pennant and others for a new species ; the des- 
cription of his “ ruddy plover” agreeing exactly with 
this. * 
224. CHARADRIUS RUBIDUS , WILSON. 
RUDDY PLOVER. 
WILSON, PLATE LXIII. PIG. Ill.f- — SUMMER DRESS. 
This bird is frequently found in company with the 
sanderling, which, except in colour, it very much 
resembles. It is generally seen on the sea coast 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 retreat- 
ing waves on the sands, picking up the small bivalve 
shell-fish, which supplies so many multitudes of the 
plover and sandpiper tribes. 
I should not be surprised if the present species turn 
out hereafter 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 plumage 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 farther particulars than 
that, tc in Hudson’s Bay, it is known by the name of 
Mistchaychekiskaweshish,” J — a piece of information 
certainly very instructive. 
* See Arctic Zoology , p. 486, No. 404. 
f This bird is the sanderling plover in its summer dress, 
i Latham. 
