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SCOLOPACID^. 



SCOLOPACIDJS. 



CALIDEIS ARENARIA (Linnaeus*). 



THE SANDERLING. 



Calidris arenaria. 



CALIDRIS, llliger^. Beak as long as the head, straight, slender, flexible, 

 compressed at the ba?e, with the point dilated and smooth. Nostrils basal, 

 lateral, narrow, longitudinally cleft in the nasal farrow, which extends to the 

 smooth point of the beak. Wings of moderate length, pointed, the first quill- 

 feather the longest. Tail of twelve feathers, short, doubly emarginate. Legs 

 rather short, naked for some distance above the tarsal joint. Feet with only 

 three toes, all directed forwards, with a very small connecting membrane at 

 their base. 



THE SANDERLING represented by the figure in front in 

 its summer dress, and by that behind in the grey plumage 

 peculiar to winter is pretty well known on most of the 

 sandy shores of the seas of Great Britain and Ireland, where 



* Tringa Arenaria, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 251 (1766). 

 t Prodromus, p. 249 (1811). 



