170 FAMILIAR WILD BIRDS. 



JEgialitis cantiana (Charadrius cantianus), KENTISH PLOVER, 

 IV. 5 



Charadrius pluvialis, GOLDEN PLOVER,, III. 57 



Eudromias morinellus (Charadrius morinellus), DOTTEREL, IV. 

 117 



Hwmatopus ostralegus, OYSTER-CATCHER, IV. 101 



Vanellus vulgaris (Tringa vanellus), LAPWING, I. 133 



SCOLOPACIDM (SNIPES). 



Bill long, slender, compressed and grooved at tip ; nostrils in groove 

 at base, closed by membrane; wings long and pointed; tarsus long 

 and slender ; hind toe short or absent. 



Calidris arenaria (Charadrius callidris, Callidris arenaria), SANDER- 

 LING, IV. 133 



Gallinago ccelestis (Scolopax gallinago), COMMON SNIPE, II. 57 

 Gallinago gallinula (Scolopax gallimila), JACK SNIPE, II. 125 

 Machetes pugnax (Tringa pugnax), BUFF, III. 109 

 Numenius arquata (Scolopax arquata), CURLEW, II. 97 

 Phalaropus fulicarius (P. lobatus), GREY PHALAROPE, III. 117 

 Scolopax rusticula (S. rusticola), WOODCOCK, II. 45 

 Totanus calidris (Scolopax calidris), REDSHANK, III. 77 

 Totanus hypoleucus (Tringa hypoleucus), COMMON SANDPIPER, 

 III. 101 



Tringa alpina (T. cinclus), DUNLIN, III. 49 

 Tringa minuta (T. pusilla), LITTLE STINT, III. 85 



QAT12B. 



Bill pointed, knife-like or hooked ; nostrils lateral ; wings elongate 

 And well- developed for flight ; hallux free, anterior toes webbed. 



LAEIDM (GULLS). 



Bill compressed, in some covered with an imperfect cere, tip of 

 maxilla never strongly hooked, sometimes straight; nostrils lateral, 

 perforate ; wings long and pointed, tail long, tarsus scutellated in 

 front, reticulated behind ; hind toe mostly short. 



Larus argentatus (L. fuscus), HERRING GULL, III. 141 

 Larus canus, COMMON GULL, 1. 113 

 Larus ridibundus, BLACK-HEADED GULL, II. 53 

 Stercorarius crepidatus (Lestris richardsonii, Larus parasiticus), 

 EICHARDSON'S SKUA, III. 69 



