526 CHARADRIID^. 



Adult (type of species). General colour of upper surface blackish 

 brown ; the lower back and rump ferruginous ; centre tail-feathers 

 blackish, the rest rufous banded with black, less distinctly on the 

 two next the middle pair ; wing-coverts blackish, with a white 

 spot near the carpal bend of the wing, formed by some of the lesser 

 coverts ; crown of head blackish, the hind-neck browner, mixed with 

 black ; sides of face brown, the lores and ear-coverts slightly more 

 reddish, bebind the eye a little white spot ; cheeks and under surface 

 of body ferruginous red, the throat buffy white: " bill black ; feet 

 greenish ; iris dusky blackish " (./. M. Forster). Total length 

 6-7 inches, culmen 0-9. wing 4-45, tail 2-15, tarsus 1-3. (Mus. Lugcl.) 



Hah. Tahiti. 



61. CALIDRIS. 



Type. 



Calidris, Cuvier, Lemons Anat. Comp. tab. ii. (1800; 



descr. nulla.) " Maubeche." 



Arenaria (?i£c Briss.), Bechst. Orn. Taschenb.^. 462 a 



(1803) C. arenaria. 



Calidris, Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Nat. p. 249 (1811) C. arenaria. 



Bange. Nearly cosmopolitan. 



1. Calidris arenaria. 



The Sanderling, Albin, N. Hist. B. ii. p. 68 (nee pi. 74?) (1738) ; 



Bern?. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 486 (1785); Lath. Gen. Syn. iii.pt. 1, 



p. 197 (1785) ; Tan: Brit. B. ii. p. 427 (1843) ; Graham, B. Iona, 



p. 239 (1890). 

 La petite Maubeche grise, Briss. Orn. v. p. 236, pi. xx. fig. (1760). 

 Tringa arenaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766) ; Audub. B. Amer. 



pi. cexxx. ; id. Orn. Biogr. iii. p. 231 (1835), v. p. 582 (1839) ; 



id. B. Amer. v. p. 287, pi. 338 (1842) ; Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. 



pp. lxxv, 214 (1840) ; Schl. Rev. Crit. p. xc (1844) ; id. Vog. 



Nederl. pi. 235 (1854) ; id. Bier. Nederl. Vog. pi. 25. fi<rs. 1,1a 



(1861); Gundl. J.f. O. 1856, p. 422 ; Breiver, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



N. H. vii. p. 308 (1860 : Cuba) ; March, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, 



p. 67 (Jamaica) ; Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 65 (1864) ; 



Fritsch, Vog. Eur. Taf. 33. fig. 7 (1870) ; Shelley, B. Eqypt, p. 253 



(1872) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 431 (1888) ; id. B. 



Japan. Emp. p. 336 (1890) ; Wiglesw. Abhandl. k. Mus. Dresd. 



1890-91, no. 6, p. 94 (1891). 

 Charadrius calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766 ; e.r Briss.) ; 



Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 688 (1788) ; Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 68, 



pi. 59. fig. 4 (1813). 

 La Sanderling, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 532 (1780). 

 Ruddy Plover, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 486 (1785) ; Lath. Gen. Syn. 



iii. pt.l, p. 195 (1785). 

 Charadrius rubidus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 688 (1788) ; Wilson, Amer. 



Orn. vii. p. 129, pi. 58. fig. 3 (1813). 

 Arenaria vulgaris, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 464 a (1803). 

 ? Chorlito pies roxos, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 328 (1805), unde Tringa 



nigellus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1103; =C. arenaria, teste Licht. 

 Verz. JDoubl. p. 72 (1823) ; cf. Hartl. Lnd. Azara, p. 25 (1847). 

 Arenaria grisea, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 368 (1809). 

 Arenaria calidris, Meyer fy Wolf, Taschenb. ii. p. 326, cum fig. 



