. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. li.'ifiM'"' m. CHARADRWS RUBIOUS* * RUDDY PLOVER. (-. [Plate LXIII. Fig. 3.] Arci. Zool. No. 404.—Lath. Syn. in., p. 195, No. 2.—Tort. Syat. p. 415. This bird is frequently found in company with the Sanderling, which, except in color, it very much resembles. It is generally seen on the Beacoast 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, picki
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. li.'ifiM'"' m. CHARADRWS RUBIOUS* * RUDDY PLOVER. (-. [Plate LXIII. Fig. 3.] Arci. Zool. No. 404.—Lath. Syn. in., p. 195, No. 2.—Tort. Syat. p. 415. This bird is frequently found in company with the Sanderling, which, except in color, it very much resembles. It is generally seen on the Beacoast 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 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 further particulars, than that " in Hudson's Bay it is known by the name of Mistchaychekiska- weshish;"! 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 centered with black, tipped with white, and edged with ferrugi- nous, giving the bird a very motley appearance; belly and vent pure white; wing quills blaok, crossed with a band of white; lesser coverts whitish, centred with pale olive, the first two or three rows blaok ; two middle tail feathers black ; the rest pale cinereous, edged with white; legs and feet bUok ; toes bordered with a very narrow menil)rane. On dissection, both males and females varied in their colors and markings. • This is t
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