SAND-PLOVER—SARUS 813 
This habit, unique, so far as is known, among the group, is indulged 
in during the breeding-season, and the inflation is accompanied by 
the utterance of a deep, hollow and resonant note, as subsequently 
observed by Mr. EK. W. Nelson (4wk, 1884, pp. 218-221), who 
afterwards figured the bird (NV. H. Collect. 
Alaska, pp. 108, 109, pl. vil.) in this extra- 
ordinary condition, when it presents almost 
the appearance of a hurr, while his experi- 
ence has been corroborated by Mr. Murdoch 
(Rep. Internat. Pol. Exped. Point Barrow, p. 
111). Two other forms must however be 
mentioned! These are the broad-billed 
Sandpiper, 7. platyrhyncha, of the Old World, 
which seems to be more Snipe-like than any 
that are usually kept in this section, and the 
marvellous Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Huwryno- 
rhynchus pygmeus (cf. Harting, Ibis, 1869, 
pp. 426-434), the true home of which 
has still to be discovered, according to the 
experience of Baron Nordenskjéld in the HRC: 
~memorable voyage of the ‘ Vega.’ ? (From The Ibis.) 
SAND-PLOVER, a name given locally to PLovers of the 
genus A’gialitis. 
SAND-RUNNER, like the foregoing, but perhaps sometimes 
used more for SANDPIPER. 
SAPSUCKER, a common name in North America for many of 
the smaller WoopPECKERS, Dendrocopus pubescens, villosus and others, 
but strictly only applicable to Sphyropicus varius, which with its 
local forms, nuchalis and ruber, and congener thyroideus, has a lingual 
structure, first described by Macgillivray for Audubon (Orn. Biogr. v. 
pp. 537, 538), very different from that of most Picidx, and a Lapse of 
feeding to correspond (cf. Coues, Birds of the North West, pp. 285-289). 
SARUS (Hind. Saras and Sarhans), often corrupted into 
“Cyrus,” the ordinary name for Girus antigone, one of the finest of 
the CRANES (p. 112). 
1 Reference has already been made to the presumably extinet AZchmorhynchus 
(p. 712, note 2) and Prosobonia (pp. 225, 226), if the latter really belonged to 
this group. 
2 Mr. Seebohm’s volume before mentioned (p. 733, note 2) The Geographical 
Distribution of the Family Charadriidex, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes and 
their allies, contains an account of every species and figures of a great many of the 
Sandpipers. Yet a good work on the subject is still to be desired, especially if it 
will describe accurately the range of the various species, distinguishing between 
their summer-homes and their winter-resorts, while recording also their occasional 
wanderings. 
