170 FEATHERED GAME 
The Sanderling’s foot looks like a smaller model 
of the beetlehead’s with its three short, stout 
toes; it has no hind toe—the only one of our 
sandpipers thus constructed. 
This bird is a dweller on the sea-beaches, 
mainly those of the outer shores. Very rarely 
is it that they come into the long stretches of 
‘*flats’’? or tide-water marshes so dear to the 
other members of their family. 
The length of this species is about eight in- 
ches; extent from sixteen to sixteen and one- 
half inches. 
THE ROBIN SNIPE, GRAY BACK, OR 
““KNOT.”’ 
RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
(Tringa canutus.) 
World wide in its range, this bird is known in 
both hemispheres; in America mostly on the 
eastern coast, though occasional stragglers are 
found on the beaches of the Great Lakes. This 
is a beautiful bird, the largest of the sandpip- 
ers. 
Not very wary and coming quite readily wher 
‘‘whistled,’’ they suffer considerably from the 
