1220 APPENDIX I. 



To follow my article on Limicola platyrhyncha is the following on an additional species : 



Genus CALJDEIS. 

 Similar to Tringa, but with liind toe wanting. 



CALIDEIS AEENAK1A. 

 (THE SANDERLING.) 



Tringa arenaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1706). 



Charadrius calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766). 



Calidris arenaria (Linn.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 270 (1849) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 094 (1S64) ; 

 Heuglin, Om. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1196 (1873) ; Hume, Str. Eeath. 1873, p. 244, et 1S76, p. 465, et 1879 

 (List B. of Ind.), p. 113 ; Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 59, 60 (1877); Feilden, Ibis, 1877, p. 406. 



Ruddy Plover, Lath.; Yamgchurchi, Turkestan. 



Adult male. (Ceylon, 10th Dec. 1879) ''Length 7 - 75 inches ; wing 4 - 75 ; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 1-0; middle toe 0-75; bill 

 at front 1-0" {Holy). (Sindh) " Length 7"5 ; wing4-7; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 0-92; bill at front 0-93 ; weight 1-7 oz." 

 (Hume). — Fewale (Turkestan). " Length 7 - S ; wing 4-73; tail 1-95; tarsus 1-0 ; bill from gape 1-1 " (Scully). — 

 Male. (Missolonghi, Mus. Harting) Wing 4-75 ; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 1-0 ; middle toe and claw 0-8 ; bill at front 1-0. 

 (South Africa, Mus. Harting) Wing 5-0 ; tail 2-3 ; tarsus 1-03 ; middle toe and claw - 75 ; bill at front 0-98. 

 (New Jersey, North America) Wing 5-2 : tail 2-4; tarsus 1*1 ; middle toe and claw 0-75 ; bill at front 1-07. 



Iris brown; bill black ; legs and feet black. 



Breeding-plumage (Missolonghi). Feathers of the head, lower hind neck, interscapulars, and scapulars black, with 

 broad lateral rufous margins and tips of white, the latter broadest at the ends of the longer overlying scapulars ; 

 forehead and hind neck brown, with greyish rufescent edgings to the feathers ; in front of the eye a black border 

 preceded by rufous, black-centred feathers, which spread down over the fore neck and throat, where they are 

 conspicuously tipped with white ; on the sides of the chest these markings take the form of creseentic bars near 

 the tip ; under surface, with the under tail-coverts and under wing, white ; back and rump blackish brown, the 

 feathers tipped in smne parts with white, in others with rufous ; upper tail-coverts black, with the same markings; 

 tail brown, the inner webs of the two centre feathers blackish, the margins of the whole white ; lesser wing- 

 coverts blackish brown : median and greater brown, tipped with white ; primaries and secondaries blackish brown; 

 the shafts white, with the 2nd brownish at the base ; tips and outer edges of the secondaries white ; edge of the 

 wing beneath brown ; inner primaries with the bases of the outer webs white. 

 \ nother example from New Jersey, the measurements of which are given above, is in a peculiar pale phase of plumage : — 

 ( >. iwn, interscapulars, and scapulars black, with broad white edgings, taking the form of marginal spots, on the scapulars ; 

 a dark patch through the lores ; space above them, forehead, entire under surface, and neck white, the feathers 

 at the back with pale brownish central streaks; point of the wing blackish brown; most of the remaining wing- 

 coverts white ; quills as above, but with more white at the base of the inner primaries ; back and rump smoky 

 blackish, tinged with buff, and with an almost straight transverse mark near the tip ; tail whitish, passing into 

 brown on the outer webs and at the tips of the feathers ; the central feathers more darkly coloured than the 

 rest. 



Winter plumage (South Africa). Above pale cinereous, the forehead, face, and all the underparts white ; the shaft- 

 streaks of the head-feathers blackish brown ; the hind neck pale greyish ; shaft-streaks of the back-feathers 

 brownish : rump darker than the upper back ; tail pale brownish, edged with white, the outer feathers tipped 

 with dark brown ; lower wing-coverts brown ; \ung as in summer plumage. 



Young (half-fledged nestling). Back and scapulars black, with rufous-buff edgings ; head dark brown, the feathers 

 edged with buff, which colour overspreads the back of the neck ; through the lores a black stripe, and a smaller 

 more indistinct one along the cheek ; wing-coverts greyish cinereous ; median and greater series tipped broadly 



