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SCOLOPACID/E : SNIPE, ETC. 



Sanderling is only known to nest in high latitudes. 



This seems to be a case like that of our other Sand- 

 pipers, stragglers of nearly or 

 quite all of which may be 

 found along our coast in sum- 

 mer, though not breeding 

 within our limits. The pres- 

 ent species is extremely abun- 

 dant on the pebbly and sandy 

 beaches in the autumn, be- 

 coming numerous in Septem- 

 ber, and so continuing 



Fig. 50. — Foot of Sanderling. 

 Natural size. 



throu^rh the followine: month. 



GREAT MARBLED GODWIT. 



LiMOSA FCEDA (Z.) Ovd. 



Chars. Feathers not extending on side of lower mandible far 

 beyond those on upper. No white anywhere ; rump, tail and its 

 coverts barred throughout with blackish and the body-color. 

 Lining of wings and axillars chestnut, more or less barred with 

 black. General color rufous or light dull cinnamon-red, nearly 

 uniform on the under parts, richer on lining of the wings, on the 

 whole upper parts variegated with the brownish-black field of each 

 feather, the blackish predominating, leaving the rufous chiefly as 

 scollops and tippings of the feathers. Bill livid flesh-color, 

 blackish on about the terminal third ; feet ashy-blackish. 

 Length, 16.00-22.00 ; extent, 30.00-40.00 ; wing somewhere 

 about 9.00, bill, 3-50-5.50, generally about 4.00; tarsus about 

 3.00. 



This is the largest of the " Bay-birds," excepting the 

 great Curlew, and no less conspicuous by its reddish 

 "color-line" than by its size. It may easily be dis- 



