128 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Fig. 36. — To show the absence of hind-toe. 



80. Calidris leucophsea. 

 Sajs^derling. 



Calidris leucopTitpa (Vroeg), Catal. p. 32, 1764f (North Coast of 



Holland) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. -42, no. 406, 



1912. 

 Calidris arenaria (Linn., 1766), Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iiii 



p. 759, 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 179 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxiv. p. 526, 1896 ; Quelch, Timehri (2) x. p. 277, 1896. 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape, back, scapulars, upper 

 wing-coverts, long inner secondaries, and upper tail-coverts 

 blackish spotted or edged with white ; some of the lesser upper 

 wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 with white on the inner wobs of the last ; tail white, pale 

 brown towards the tips of the feathers ; forehead, sides of face, 

 and entire under surface pure white. " Bill and feet olive-black ; 

 iris dark brown." 



Total length 170 mm., culmen 2G. wing 127, tail 51, tarsus 24. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. AVing 12.5 mm. 



This bird breeds in the kigh northern latitudes and winteis 

 only in the Southern Hemisphere. 



Ran<je in British Guiana. Although there are two examples of 

 this bird in the McConnell collection, which were obtained in the 

 Colony, there is no exact locality given to either. 



Habits. Schoniburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 758) that this 

 bird is found commonly on the sand-banks of the Waini River. 



AVe quote the following note from Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri 

 (2) X. p. 277) : — ''The common Suuderling (^Calidris arenaria). 



