228 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
to correspond. Females in summer have the feathers of the 
upper plumage velvet black, fringed with sandy-buff ; the 
tertiaries are boldly marked with buff and black in irregular 
bars ; the foreneck and breast are mottled with black. 
Young birds are mostly ashy-gray, tinged with buff on the 
lower parts, while the tertiaries are not barred ; otherwise they 
resemble females in summer. 
Bill dark brown, paler at the gape; iris brown ; legs and 
feet fleshy-yellow to yellowish-brown. 
Males : length 12 ; wing 7:3; tail 2°75; tarsus 1:9; bill 1°5 
Females are smaller: length 10 ; wing 6. 
Distribution —One specimen was obtained forty years ago 
in the Hambantota District, and in February, 1914, I saw 
three birds near Hambantota and secured one for the Museum. 
Common in Northern India during the winter. Rare in 
Burma and the south. Breeds in temperate Europe and Asia, 
migrating to Africa and Southern Asia as far east as India. 
Habits —Should be looked for round unfrequented lagoons 
from November to March. It may occasionally visit us and 
pass unnoticed among the swarms of other waders. It can 
be distinguished from Sandpipers of the same size by its dark 
lower back and rump. 
CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 270 ; 
Legge, p. 1220). 
The Sanderling. 
Description.—Winter : Upper parts light gray tinged with 
brown, each feather with darker shaft-stripes and paler edges. 
Forehead, face, and lower parts white. The wing coverts and’ 
quills are blackish-brown ; across the wing there is a white 
band formed by the tips of the greater coverts. The basal 
portion of the inner web of all the quills and the same part of 
the outer web of the later primaries is white ; quill shafts 
white. The hind neck is lighter and the rump darker than 
the back. The rump is white at the sides ; the central tail 
feathers are ashy-brown, black at the tip with white shafts and 
margins ; the rest of the tail feathers are grayish-brown edged 
with white and with some white on the inner webs. 
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