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SANDERLING. 



Tringa arenaria, Bonap, 



PLATE CCXXX. Vol. III. p. 23L 



Mouth extremely narrow, its width only 2 twelfths. Palate mode- 

 rately concave, as in the Snipes, with two series of reversed papillae. 

 Tongue 11 twelfths long, slender, tapering, concave above, horny toward 

 the end. (Esophagus 3 inches 2 twelfths long, 2 twelfths wide ; pro- 

 ventriculus 3 twelfths in breadth. Stomach large, roundish, oblique, 

 10 twelfths long, 9 twelfths in breadth ; its lateral muscles large ; the 

 epithelium dense, longitudinally rugous, and of a reddish colour. Con- 

 tents of stomach remains of insects and sand. Intestine 9| inches long, 

 its width 24 twelfths ; coeca 1 inch 1 twelfth long, 1^ twelfth in width, 

 their distance from the extremity 1^ inch ; rectum slightly dilated at 

 the end. Trachea 2^ inches long, its breadth 2 twelfths, much flat- 

 tened ; the rings very narrow, imossified, 130 in number. Bronchial 

 half rings about 15. Muscles as in the Tringas, and other genera of 

 this family. 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa pectoralis, Bonap. 



PLATE CCXCIV. Vol. III. p. 601. 



Mouth very narrow, its width 2^ twelfths. Palate with two rows 

 of reversed papillae. Tongue very slender, tapering, channelled above, 

 11 twelfths long. (Esophagus 4^ inches long, its average width 2^ 

 twelfths ; proventriculus 3| twelfths. Stomach oblique, roundish, 10 

 twelfths long, 9 twelfths in breadth ; its lateral muscles large ; epi- 

 thelium dense, longitudinally rugous. Contents of stomach remains of 

 small Crustacea, seeds, and fragments of quartz. Intestine 11^ inches 

 long, li twelfth wide ; coeca li inch long, 1 twelfth in width, 1 inch 



