CALIDRIS. 617 



Gen. Calidris. Cuv. 



Hind toe wanting, otherwise as in Tringa. 



1297. Calidris arenaria (Linn.}, Jerd., B. Ind. Hi. p. 694 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. i. p. 244 ; Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 322 ; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 343 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. iv. p. 465 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 101, pi.; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 113; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 1220 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 240; Murray, 

 Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 252 ; Oates, B. Br.Burm.\\. p. 398. The SANDERLING, 



In winter the forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, neck in front, 

 belly, thighs, vent and under tail coverts white ; crown of the head, sides of the 

 neck and breast, back and scapulars cinereous or ashy brown, the feathers with 

 dark shafts ; shoulders and edge of the wing dark brown ; median and greater 

 coverts like the back, dark shafted and tipped white ; primaries dark brown, 

 all white shafted ; their inner webs ashy, and the four middle ones white on 

 their outer webs, forming in the closed wing a wedge-shaped spot ; secondaries 

 brown or dusky, tipped with white ; rump and upper tail coverts brown, edged 

 with white ; tail brownish ash, edged with white, the two central feathers 

 darker than the rest ; bill black, 0*93 to I inch in length. 



Length. 7-5; wing 475 ; tail 2; tarsus 0-92 ; irides deep brown; legs 

 black. 



Hab. Kurrachee (Sind), Beloochistan Coast, Persia, Ceylon, Kutch, Guzerat, 

 Concan and South India, also the Laccadives, the West Coast, and the Irrawaddy 

 delta. In the Kurrachee harbour extremely abundant, associated with the 

 Stints on the sea-shore. 



Sub-Family PHALAROPIN^E. 



Bill straight, curved at the tip ; tarsi short ; toes lobed on the sides, united 

 at the base ; hind toe edged with narrow membrane, 



Gen. PhalaropUS. Briss. 



Bill long; 1st and 2nd quills of wing longest. 



1298. Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linn.), Edw. .#. pi. 143; 



Bodd., Tab. P. E. 766 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 336 ; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 696; 

 Str. F. i. 246 ; ii. 338 ; v. 290 ; vii. 487 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., Sfc., Sind, 

 p. 221 ; id., Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 253. The LESSER COOT-FOOTED STINT or the 

 RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 



Crown, back of neck and nape dark lead or slaty ; in winter the forehead is 



white, tinged with grey ; the streak over the eye, and the crown and nape are 



blackish grey ; the neck on the sides is fine yellowish red, which in winter 



wears away into white, with sometimes a tinge of purple ; in front dark grey 



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