SANDERLING. 381 



in Scandinavia. The eggs which I have received from. 

 Greenland are rather less than those of the double snipe 

 (not so long), and rather resembling them in markings, but 

 not so dark. 



Gen. Calidrisj 111. 



In most respects resemble the sandpipers, but may be 

 always distinguished by the total absence of the hind toe. 



206. CALIDEIS ABENAEIA, 111. Foranderlig Sandlopare. 



The Sanderling. D. F. 



Length 8 in. ; beak 1 in. ; tarsus 1 in. ; tail 2 in. ; 

 secondaries and tail feathers always with white shafts. 

 Summer dress : rusty red and black above, a yellowish 

 stripe over the eye ; breast and sides of the head, pale 

 rusty red. In winter dress, ash grey above, white 

 underneath. Young, under parts and a stripe over 

 the eye white ; back and shoulders brown-black, with 

 yellowish feather edges; back of the neck grey- white, 

 spotted. 



Is not often seen in Scandinavia, and then only during 

 the periods of migration. I never saw the eggs, nor do 

 I believe the bird breeds in Scandinavia. The egg figured 

 by Baedeker is about as large as that of the purple sand- 

 piper, minutely spotted with brown, on a light white-green 

 bottom. He gives Greenland as a breeding place, and 

 as I see them advertised in an English dealer's catalogue 

 at 2s. 6d. each, they must be common enough somewhere, 

 although no oologist that I know has yet been able to find 

 out where. 



Gen. Scolopax, L. 



Beak always considerably longer than tarsus, thin, weak 

 to the point, which is hard and blunt and formed into a nail; 

 upper mandible longest ; both mandibles furrowed along the 

 edge beyond the middle. Eyes large, set far back right 

 under the crown of the head. Legs moderate, slender, 

 naked space above the tibia, very small. First and second 

 wing feathers longest. Tail with twelve to sixteen feathers. 



