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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. 
In this state the cheeks and throat are white. Head and 
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, Becustr. SANDERLING. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bitt 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 Liynaus 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 Latuam. 
Young of 
the year. 
