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This Species is confined mostly to western North America, breeding on 

 the arctic coast and wintering from the gulf coast to South America. Dur- 

 ing the migrations it occasionally appears in numbers on our shores, as in 

 1897, during July and August, when it was abundant on Long Island [Brais- 

 lin. Auk, 16:191]. In Mr Butcher's Long Island Notes, we find reference 

 to four specimens taken by Mr Lawrence in Queens county, July 29, 1889, 

 and in Mr Butcher's Collection is a specimen taken at Point Rockaway, 

 August 29, 1891, and three others taken at Rockaway by Mr Lawrence, 

 July 17, 1893. I have never secured a specimen in western New York, but 

 Mr Savage took it near Buffalo on the Canadian side in September 1897. If 

 a close .watch were kept among the Semipalmated sandpipers taken on our 

 inland waters, this species would be detected occasionally. 



Calidris leucophaea (Pallas) 



(Calidris alba on plate) 



Sanderling 



Plates 33, 34 



Tringa arenaria Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Kd. 12. 1766. 1:251 

 Calidris arenaria DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 245, fig. 205 



A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. iSq.^^. No. 248 



cali'dris, Gr. KoAiSpts; Lat. calidris, a beach bird; leucophaea, Gr. Xcuko;, light; 



^atos, dun, gray 



Description. Hind toe wanting; front toes free but with narrow, finely 

 scalloped margins; inner primaries, secondaries and greater coverts, and 

 tail feathers partly white. Summer: Head, neck, breast and upper parts 

 varied with rufous and black, tipped or frosted with whitish; belly, flanks 

 and under tail coverts and under wings pure white. Winter: Upper parts 

 pale ashy gray varied with blackish along the shaft lines ; entire under parts 

 immaculate white. 



Length 7-8.75 inches; extent 15-16; wing 4.7-5; tail 2.25; tarsus .9- 

 1.05; middle toe and clav/ .75; bill .95-1. 



The Sanderling is undoubtedly the most widely ranging of our shore 

 birds, breeding in the northernmost portion of the holarctic region and 

 migrating southward in winter, reaching nearly all parts of the world in 

 its wanderings. In this hemisphere it winters from the Middle States to 



