485 SANDERLING, AND RUDDY PLOVER. 



nereous brown : primaries duflky ; white towards their bottoms : tail 

 white towards the bafe ; black towards the end ; and tipt with white : 

 -legs very long, naked an inch above the knees, and of a blood-red : 

 toes very fliort. Length, to the end of the tail, about ten inches. 

 Placb. Inhabits the province of Neiv Tork. Has much the habit of the 



European Dottrel. — Lev. Mus. 



403. Sander- 5;-. ZW. ii. N° Z12.— Le Sanderllng, De Buffon, vil. 532. 



^'^°- Charadrius Calidris, Ii«. 5j/?. 255. — Latham, in. — Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



■pL. With a flender, black, weak bill, bending a little at the end : 

 head and hind part of the neck cinereous, ftreaked with dufky 

 lines : back and fcapulars of a brownifh grey, edged with dirty 

 white : coverts and primaries dufky : belly white : feathers of the 

 tail fharp-pointed and cinereous: legs black. Weight near an 

 ounce and three quarters. Length eight inches. 

 Place. Inhabits North America. Abounds about Seal IJlands, on the La~ 



brador coaft. I do not find it among the birds of northern Europe ; 

 nor in AJia, nearer than lake Baikal. 



404. Ruddy. pL. With a black ftrait bill, an inch long: head, neck, breaft, 

 fcapulars, and coverts of wings and tail, of a ruddy color, fpot- 

 ted with black, and powdered with white 5 in the fcapulars and 

 coverts of wings the black prevails : the outmoft web of the four 

 firft quil feathers brown ; the internal white, tipt with brown : the 

 upper part of the others white j the lower brown : the two middle fea- 

 thers of the tail brown, edged with ruftj the others of a dirty white: 

 legs black ; toes divided to their origin. 

 Place. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay.-^-M.r. Hutchins, 



Br. 



