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disposed Knes and spots of dusky, which hecome transverse waved bars on the latter. Length 

 10.50; extent 20.50; wing 0.40; tail 2.70; bill about 1.40; tarsus 1.20; middle toe 1.00; 

 tibia bare 0.60. A large handsome species, inhabiting most of the World ; in America, 

 chiefly along the Atlantic coast, but also in the interior, about the largo lalies and rivers. 

 IMigratory ; breeds only in high latitudes. 



CALI'DRIS. (Gr. xaXiSpis, kalidris, Lat. calidris, name of some beach bird, perhaps this 

 one.) SandeelinCtS. Bill stout, straight, about as long as head or tarsus ; tip thickened, 

 expanded and rather liard, the oulmen just behind it somewhat concave. Nostrils far forward. 

 Wings long, pointed ; tail short, doubly-emarginate, central feathers projecting. Tibise bare 

 for two-thirds the length of the tarsus ; toes very short, widely margined. No hind toe 

 (General characters of Tringa proper, but 3-t(jed. See fig. 39.) One species. 



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Fig. 440. — Sanderling, J nat. size. (From Brehm.) 



C. arena'ria. (Lat. arenaria, relating to arena, sand. Fig. 440.) Sanderling. Ruddy 

 " Plover." Adult in summer : Entire upper parts and neck all round variegated with black, 

 light ashy and bright reddish ; on the back and scapulars each feather having a central black 

 field, and being broadly margined and tipped mth ashy or reddish. Under parts white, immac- 

 ulate. Outer webs and tips of primaries deep brownish-black, inner light ashy. A white spot at 

 base of inner primaries. Secondaries mostly pure white ; the outer vanes and part of inner on 

 the latter half dusky. Greater coverts dusky, broadly tipped and narrowly edged with pure 

 white. Rump, upper tail-coverts and central tail-feathers dusky, tipped and narrowly edged 

 with ashy-white; lateral tail-feathers very light ash, nearly white. Bill and feet black 

 Length 7.50-8.00; extent 15.00-16.00; wing 4.90; taU2.25; biU about 1.00; tarsus rather 



