170 FEATHERED GAME 



The Sanderling's foot looks like a smaller model 

 of the beetlehead's with its three short, stout 

 toes; it has no hind toe — the only one of our 

 sandpipers thus constructed. 



This bird is a dweller on the sea-beaches, 

 mainly those of the outer shores. Very rarely 

 is it that they come into the long stretches of 

 ''flats" or tide-water marshes so dear to the 

 other members of their family. 



The length of this species is about eight in- 

 ches; extent from sixteen to sixteen and one- 

 half inches. 



THE ROBIN SNIPE, GRAY BACK, OR 

 ''KNOT." 



RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



(Tringa canutus.) 



World wide in its range, this bird is known in 

 both hemispheres; in America mostly on the 

 eastern coast, though occasional stragglers are 

 found on the beaches of the Great Lakes. This 

 is a beautiful bird, the largest of the sandpip- 

 ers. 



Not very wary and coming quite readily when 

 "whistled," they suffer considerably from the 



