716 Eeport of State Geologist. 



Lafayette, at Hedley's Lake, September 6, 1894, and Mr. J. 0. Dunn 

 shot one from a flock of five small Sandpipers at Peru October 2, 

 1893. It had lost one foot and the wound had healed. It has also 

 been reported from Lake County (Woodruff, Aiken); Chalmers and 

 English Lake (Dury); Steuben County (H. W. McBride); Putnam 

 County (Clearwaters). I have never seen it in the AYhitewater Valley. 

 The extremely early apearance of a number of the Limicolae, including 

 the Pectoral and Least Sandpipers and this species on the shor£ of 

 Lake Michigan about the middle of July, will be noted. 



51. Genus CALIDRIS Cuvier. 



99. (248). Calidris arenaria (Linn.). 



Sanderling. 



Adult in Summer. — Above, feathers with black centers edged with 

 rufous or grayish and often tipped with, whitish; head, neck, throat 

 and jugulum, pale cinnamon-rufous, speckled below and streaked 

 above with blackish; lower parts, white; greater wing coverts, broadly 

 tipped ^Adth white, and outer webs of inner primaries white at their 

 base. Adult in Wititer, — Above, pale gray, spotted with black and 

 whitish, the latter at tips of feathers; jugulum, white, unspotted, 

 faintly tinged with dull buff. 



Length, 7.00-8.75; wing, 4.70-5.00; bill, .95-1.00; tarsus, .90-1.05. 



Eange. — Nearly cosmopolitan, but breeding only in Arctic and 

 subarctic districts; abundant in America, from Hudson Bay north to 

 Arctic coast, migrating south to Patagonia and Chili. Chiefly littoral, 

 but frequenting also the larger inland waters. 



Nest, a hollow in ground, lined with grass and leaves. J^ggs, 3-4; 

 light olive brown, finely spotted with darker, the markings larger and 

 more blended on larger end; 1.41 by .91. 



Migrant; most places rare, but very common in late summer and 

 fall on the shore of Lake Michigan and perhaps along the Ohio Kiver. 



Mr. Nelson notes it from about the 20th of May to the 10th of June, 

 but in all the observations that have come to my notice I have never 

 found it reported at that season. They appear usually in flocks of 

 five to fifty birds by them-selves, but are occasionally associated with 

 other Sandpipers, particularly the Semipalmated and Pectoral, 

 through August. Of those first arriving about one-third are adults, 

 with the reddish, spotted throat of the breeding plumage. They were 

 common at Miller's, Ind., August 1, 1897. There was found a large 

 flock of Sandpipers, many of which were Sanderlings. Two weeks 



