SANDERLING. 479 



Calidris aeenaeia (L.) 111. 



Sanderlins ; IS.nd.dy Plover. 



Calidria arenaria, Whkaton, Ohio Agrio. Eep. for 1860, 380, Cprobable) ; addenda, 480 ; 

 Eeprint, 1861, 11 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Esp. for 1874, 572 ; Eeprint, 1875, 

 12.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 15 ; Revised List, Jonrn. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 i, 1879, 132; Eeprint, 16; Field Notes, ib., ii, 18d0, 127.— Duet and Freeman, ib., 

 iii, 1880, 104 ; Eeprint, 5. 



Tringa arenaria, LlNN.s;us, Syst. Nat. 1766, 251. 

 Calidi-is arenaria, Illigkk, Prod., 1811, 249. 



Adnlt in summer ; head, neck and npper parts varied with black, ashy and bright 

 reddish ; below from the breast pore white ; tail except central feathers light-ash, nearly 

 white ; primaries gray with blackish edges and tips, the shafts of all and bases of most 

 white ; secondaries white except a space at the end, and greater coverts broadly white 

 tipped ; bill and feet black. Adult in winter, and young, no reddish ; speckled with 

 black and white, sometimes tawny tinged on the jagalum. Length, 7^-3; wing, 4^-5; 

 tail, 2i ; bill, about 1 ; tarsus, 1 or rather less ; middle toe and claw, 4. 



Habitat, Sea coasts of nearly all countries. 



Common spring and fall migrant on Lake Erie, less common in tho 

 interior of the State. The Sanderling, until a few years since considered 

 an exclusively maritime species, is common on the Great Lakes. Mr. 

 Nelson says it is met with on Lake Michigan in flocks of from five to 

 seventy-five birds, frequenting the sandy beaches in company with the 

 Piping Plover. Mr. Chubb informs me that it is common on Lake Erie 

 near Cleveland. 



Mr. Langdon in 1877, mentions a specimen, from the vicinity of Cin- 

 cinnati, in the collection of Dr. Byrnes ; in 1879 he notes its capture on 

 several occasions, and mentions additional specimens in the collection of 

 Charles Dary, and in 1880, a specimen taken on the Ohio, opposite Cin- 

 cinnati, by Mr. Shorten, in September, 1879. Messrs. Dury and Freeman 

 note its occurrence September 15, 1878. I have seen it but once from 

 this vicinity, in October, 1874, when I obtained a specimen from a sports- 

 man, who informed me they were at that time not uncommon in the 

 vicinity of Shadeville, associating with Pectoral Sandpipers. 



Genus LIMOSA. Biisson. 



Bill longer than tarsus, slender, and curving gently upwards, grooved to near the tip. 

 Gape not extending beyond base of furrowed culmen. Tarsus soutellate in front and 

 behind, reticulate laterally ; a short basal membrane between middle and outer toes. 

 Tail short, even. 



