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Adult male and female in winter — Above, pale gray, the centre of 

 the feathers black ; on the rump, the centre of the feathers a 

 light brown ; under parts, pure white. 



Voting — Upper parts, gray, spotted with black and white, sometimes 

 a buff tinge, the white or the buff being noticeable on the tips 

 of the feathers; jugulum, white, faintly tinged with buff; re- 

 mainder of under parts, white ; iris, brown ; bill and feet, black. 



Measurements — Length, 8 inches ; wing, 5 inches ; culmen, i inch ; 

 tarsus, I inch. 



Eggs — Four in number; color, brownish olive marked with faint 

 brown spots; measure 1.44 by .95 inches. 



Habitat — In North America breeds from the Barren Grounds, near 

 the Arctic Coast at Franklin Bay, north to Grinnell Land and 

 northern Greenland, and possibly south to Hudson Bay. Win- 

 ters from Virginia, occasionally Massachusetts, Bermuda, West 

 Indies, Texas, and southern California, south to Chili and Pata- 

 gonia, sometimes occurring in Venezuela by July 7, and in Bolivia 

 in August. In the migrations it is common on the Atlantic 

 Coast of the United States ; rather rare in the interior, except 

 on the Great Lakes, and on the Pacific Coast north of California. 

 In the eastern hemisphere it has been found in summer in north- 

 ern Siberia, Spitzbergen, Franz Josef Land, and Iceland, but 

 the eggs have not been taken. Winters from the Mediterranean 

 to South Africa, the north shore of the Indian Ocean to Burma 

 and the Malay Archipelago, in China and Japan, and in many 

 islands of the oceans, including Hawaii. 



One of the most widely distributed of the sand- 

 piper family, the sanderling is found along the 

 shores of North and South America, and pretty 

 much throughout the eastern hemisphere. Its 

 favorite haunts are the ocean beaches, at the very 

 edge of the foamy swash, where a receding wave 

 leaves bare and wet the sand and sand-flies 

 are flooded from their holes. Here the sander- 

 ling dodges the rough water in quest of food, 



