PHALAROPIN &—TOTANIN&. 357. 
The Sanderling is more or less common along the coast 
during winter. 
Sun-ramity, Phalaropine. 
_ Feet with toes bordered by a free membrane cut into lobes as 
in the Coots ; otherwise much asin 7'ringa. 
- Genus, Lobipes. 
Bill slender and pointed; the feet lobed; otherwise as in 
Tringa. 
Lobipes hyperboreus, Zzn. 
890.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 696; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 253. 
THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 
Length, 6°5 ; wing, 4°4 ; tail, 2°25 ; tarsus, 0°75; bill, 0°75. 
Bill dusky ; irides brown ; feet yellowish-green. 
Forehead white ; crown, occiput, and nape dusky-brown ; 
the back, scapulars, and two middle tail-feathers the same, but 
the feathers broadly edged with whitish ; all the lower parts 
re passing into pale-ashy on the sides of the breast and 
anks. 
In summer plumage the back and scapulars are deep black, 
with reddish edges ; the wing-coverts black with a white band 
and the neck ferruginous. 
The Coot-footed Stint or Red-necked Phalarope occurs in the 
cold weather in the Kurrachee Harbour and adjacent sea- 
coast. 
I met withit at Chaman, South Afghanistan, where it must 
have been migrating. 
Sun-ramity, Totanine. 
Bill moderately long, slender, with the tip hard and pointed, 
slightly ascending in some ; tarsi slender, rather long ; feet 
elongate ; outer-toe joined by web to the middle one. 
Genus, Actitis. 
Bill moderate or rather long, slender, straight, compressed,. and 
acuminate, with the tip hard ; the groove of the bill extending 
quite to the tip ; wings moderately long, with first quill longest ; 
tail slightly lengthened ; tarsus rather short or moderate ; toes, 
rather long. 
Actitis (Rhyacophilus) glareola, Gm. 
$91.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 697; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 17; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 429 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 253 ; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 134. 
