256 LONG-BILLED RUNNING BIRDS. 



ling are the only birds with wliich, because of their 



somewhat similar changes of colour, the Knot may be 



confounded. 



DUNLIN — 8 inches ; central tail-featliers longer than the 

 others, whilst the tail of the Knot is square at the end ; 

 rump brown, bnt whitish, Hushed with chestnut, in the 

 Knot ; form slighter in the Dunlin. In summer the 

 Dunlin is infallibly recognised by its black stomach- 

 patch. 



CURLEW- SANDPIPER— 8 inches; rump white at all 

 times, and bill clearly curved downwards. 



SANDERLING— 8 inches. Lacks the white or whitish 

 rump of the Knot. 



SANDERLING.— Form, like the Knot (plate 108). 

 8 inches. Upper parts rufous, with black centres to 

 the feathers ; face, neck, and breast rufous-buff, with 

 brown spots ; remainder of under surface and sides of 

 lower back white ; bill rather stout, about equal in 

 length to the head, blackish ; legs blackish. Winter : 

 light ashy-gray above, white below. Spring and 

 autumn migrant. 



The Sanderling is met on our coasts — frequenting 

 the sandy portions rather than the mud-flats — as a 

 migrant in his chestnut plumage from April to June, 

 and in his gray-and-white winter coat from August 

 onwards. The bird occurs also beside larger inland 

 waters. If one could lay hold of him, the absence of 

 a hind-toe would soon settle his identity. However, 

 since he is a shore-bird, frequenting the flats in small 

 flocks, often in the company of Dunlins and other 

 small waders, flying and running with them along 

 the water-line, and behaving generally as they behave, 



