490 



COMMON SANDERLING. 

 (Arenaria vulgaris.) 



Ar. rostro pedibusque nigris^loris uropygioque subgriseis, corpore 

 subtus albo immaculato, retnigibus primoribus scapis candidis. 



Sanderling with the beak and feet black ; the lores and rump 

 greyish 3 the body beneath pure white ; the shafts of the pri- 

 mary quills white. 



Arenaria vulgaris. Becks. 4. 308. — Temm. Man, d^Orni, 334. 



Calidris arenaria. Leach. Cat. Mus. Brit. p. 28. 



Tringa arenaria. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 255. 9. — Gmel. Syst, Nat. 

 1. 680.—Raii. Syn. lOg. a. 1 1. 



Charadrius Calidris. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 251. l6. young. — 

 Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 689. young. — Lath. Ind, Orn, 2. 741. 4. 

 young. 



Charadrius rubidus. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 688. summer plumage. 

 Lath, Ind, Orn, 2. 740. 2. summer plumage. 



Calidris grisea minor. Briss. Orn. 5. 236. ly. pi, 20. y] 2. 



Le Sanderling. Buff. Ois. 7 . 532. 



Sanderling variable. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 334. 



Ruddy Plover. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 404. young. Lath. Gen, 

 Syn, 5. 195. 2. — Wills. Amer, Orn. 7. 129. pi. Ixiii.y^ 3. young. 



Sanderling or Curwillet. Penn. Brit, Zool. 2. 212. pi. 73. — 

 Penn. Arct. Zool. 2, 403. — Alb. Birds, 2. pi. 74. — Lath, Gen. 

 Syn. 5. igy.—Lath. Syn, Sup. 253. — Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 315, 

 — Lemn, Brit, Birds. 5, pi. 183. — Wale. Syn, 2. pi, I60. — 

 Pult. Cat. Dors, p, iQ.^Bexu. Brit. Birds, 2. p. I.— Mont, 

 Orn, Diet, 2. — Mont, Orn, Diet, Sup. — Linn. Trans, 8, 268. — 

 Wills. Amer, Orn. 7. QS.pl, lix../4. 



Length eight inches : the whole of the upper 

 parts of the body and sides of the neck are of a 

 greyish white, with the middle of each feather 

 deeper: the face, throat, fore-part of the neck. 



