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Mr. Kumlien speaks of this species as not uncommon in North Greenland. Eggs 

 were procured at Christianshaab, Greenland, through the kindness of Governor 

 Fencker. It was not observed on any part of Cumberland visited by Mr. Kumlien. 

 Of these two eggs taken in North Greenland, one measured 1.52 inches in length by 

 1.05 in breadth. Its ground-color is drab, with a distinct shade of olive, and it is 

 thickly marked with blotches of two shades of umber-brown, one quite light, the 

 other much darker ; these are most numerous on and around the larger end, and are 

 in a somewhat longitudinal direction, with a tendency also to a spiral course. There 

 are also a fesv spots of a very dark, almost black, color on the larger end. 



The other egg measured 1.47 by 1.04 inches, being of a much more pyriform 

 shape. Its ground-color is a very light greenish drab, with rather sparse markings 

 of a deep umber. These are larger and more confluent about the greater end of the 

 egg, where they are chiefly disposed in a circular ring ; but are sparsely distributed 

 over the rest of the surface. About the larger end are a few very dark markings. 



Genus CALIDRIS, Cuvier. 



Calidris, Cuvier, Auat. Conip. V. (in chart), 1805 (type, Tringa arenaria, Linn. ). 



Char. General characters of Tringa and Adodromas, but hind toe entirely absent. Bill 

 straight, rather longer than the head, slightly expanded or spoon-shaped at end. Toes short, 

 the middle one scarcely two-thirds the tarsus. 



The only known species of this genus is nearly cosmopolitan in its range. 



C. arenaria. 



Calidris arenaria. 



THE SANDEELING. 



Tringa arenaria, Linn. S. N. L 1766, 251. —Aud. Orii. Biog. IIL 1835, 231 ; Synop. 1839, 237 ; 



B. Am. V. 1842, 287, pi. 338. 

 Calidris arenaria, Illig. Prodr. 1811, 249. — Sw. & Eicii. F. B. A. II. 1831, 366. — Nutt. Man. 



II. 1834, 4. — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 723. — Baiiid, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 534. — 



CouES, Key, 1872, 257, %. 167 ; Check List, 1873, no. 427 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 627 ; Birds N. W. 



1874, 492. — KiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 542. 

 Charadrius calidris, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 255. — Wilson, Am. Orn. VIL 1813, 68, pi. 59, fig. 4. 

 Charadrius ruhldus, Gmel. S. N. 1. 1788, 688. — WiLS. Am. Orn. VIL 1813, 129, pi. 58, fig. 3. 

 Arenaria vulgaris, Bechst. Tascli. Deutsehl. IL 462. 

 Arenaria grisca, Bkehm, Vog. Deutsehl. 674. 

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