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  This 
  species 
  is 
  confined 
  mostly 
  to 
  western 
  North 
  America, 
  breeding 
  on 
  

   the 
  arctic 
  coast 
  and 
  wintering 
  from 
  the 
  gulf 
  coast 
  to 
  South 
  America. 
  Dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  migrations 
  it 
  occasionally 
  appears 
  in 
  numbers 
  on 
  our 
  shores, 
  as 
  in 
  

   1897, 
  during 
  July 
  and 
  August, 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  abundant 
  on 
  Long 
  Island 
  [Brais- 
  

   lin. 
  Auk, 
  16:191]. 
  In 
  Mr 
  Butcher's 
  Long 
  Island 
  Notes, 
  we 
  find 
  reference 
  

   to 
  four 
  specimens 
  taken 
  by 
  Mr 
  Lawrence 
  in 
  Queens 
  county, 
  July 
  29, 
  1889, 
  

   and 
  in 
  Mr 
  Butcher's 
  Collection 
  is 
  a 
  specimen 
  taken 
  at 
  Point 
  Rockaway, 
  

   August 
  29, 
  1 
  89 
  1, 
  and 
  three 
  others 
  taken 
  at 
  Rockaway 
  by 
  Mr 
  Lawrence, 
  

   July 
  17, 
  1893. 
  I 
  have 
  never 
  secured 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  western 
  New 
  York, 
  but 
  

   Mr 
  Savage 
  took 
  it 
  near 
  Buffalo 
  on 
  the 
  Canadian 
  side 
  in 
  September 
  1897. 
  ^^ 
  

   a 
  close 
  watch 
  were 
  kept 
  among 
  the 
  Semipalmated 
  sandpipers 
  taken 
  on 
  oiir 
  

   inland 
  waters, 
  this 
  species 
  would 
  be 
  detected 
  occasionally. 
  

  

  Calidris 
  leucophaea 
  (Pallas) 
  

  

  (Calidris 
  alba 
  on 
  plate) 
  

  

  Sanderltng 
  

  

  Plates 
  33, 
  3 
  4 
  

  

  Tringa 
  arenaria 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  12. 
  1766. 
  1:251 
  

   Calidris 
  arenaria 
  DeKav. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  245, 
  fig. 
  205 
  

  

  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  i8q.5. 
  No. 
  248 
  

  

  cali'dris, 
  Gr. 
  KaXtSpis; 
  Lat. 
  calidris, 
  a 
  beach 
  bird; 
  leucophaea, 
  Gr. 
  Aeuko's, 
  light; 
  

  

  4>al6s, 
  dun, 
  gray 
  

  

  Description. 
  Hind 
  toe 
  wanting; 
  front 
  toes 
  free 
  but 
  with 
  narrow, 
  finely 
  

   scalloped 
  margins; 
  inner 
  primaries, 
  secondaries 
  and 
  greater 
  coverts, 
  and 
  

   tail 
  feathers 
  partly 
  white. 
  Summer: 
  Head, 
  neck, 
  breast 
  and 
  upper 
  parts 
  

   varied 
  with 
  rufous 
  and 
  black, 
  tipped 
  or 
  frosted 
  with 
  whitish; 
  belly, 
  flanks 
  

   and 
  under 
  tail 
  coverts 
  and 
  under 
  wings 
  pure 
  white. 
  Winter: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  

   pale 
  ashy 
  gray 
  varied 
  with 
  blackish 
  along 
  the 
  shaft 
  lines 
  ; 
  entire 
  under 
  parts 
  

   immaculate 
  white. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-8.75 
  inches; 
  extent 
  15-16; 
  wing 
  4.7-5; 
  tail 
  2.25; 
  tarsus 
  .9- 
  

   1.05; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  .75; 
  bill 
  .95-1. 
  

  

  The 
  Sanderling 
  is 
  •'undoubtedly 
  the 
  most 
  widely 
  ranging 
  of 
  our 
  shore 
  

   birds, 
  breeding 
  in 
  the 
  northernmost 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  holarctic 
  region 
  and 
  

   migrating 
  southward 
  in 
  winter, 
  reaching 
  nearly 
  all 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  in 
  

   its 
  wanderings. 
  In 
  this 
  hemisphere 
  it 
  winters 
  from 
  the 
  Middle 
  States 
  to 
  

  

  