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Fig. 2. Is the female, resembling the male bird, except 

 that the colours are not so distinct or bright, and the 

 white on the head and neck less pure. 



Fig. 3. The young of the year. Young of 



In this state the cheeks and throat are white. Head and the year ' 

 neck hair-brown, with darker variegations. Collar and 

 gorget black, edged with greyish- white. Back and sca- 

 pulars hair-brown, glossed with olive-green, each feather 

 having its tip black, margined with yellowish-white. 

 Outer tail-feather white, with a large black spot near 

 the tip, the rest tipped with white. Legs honey-yel- 

 low. It is frequently met with in an intermediate state, 

 with more or less of the reddish-brown ; and the collar, 

 eye-patch, &c. less marked and distinct than in the 

 adult bird. 



GENUS ARENARIA, BECHST. SANDERLING. 



GKNERIC CHARACTERS. 



BILL as long as the head, strait, slender, semi-flexible, 

 compressed at the base, with the tip dilated and smooth. 



Nostrils lateral, basal, narrow, longitudinally cleft in the 

 nasal furrow, which extends to the dertrum or nail of the 

 bill. 



Wings of mean length, acuminate, with the first quill- 

 feather the longest. 



Legs slender, of mean length, naked above the tarsal joint. 

 Feet three-toed, all the toes directed forwards, with a very 

 small connecting membrane at their base. 



By LINNAEUS the Sanderling was at first arranged with the 

 Tringas, but afterwards transferred to the genus Charad- 

 rius, in which it was retained by GMELIN and LATHAM, 



