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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Scolopacidæ, section Tringeæ, the type of which is the red-balcked sandpiper of Europe, etc., pelidna alpina; the dunlins. The American bird is a different variety, P. alpina Americana, or pacifica. See cut under
dunlin .
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