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SANDERLING. 
dark clove-brown, tbe feathers tipped with greyish- 
white, and margined broadly with pale reddish- 
orange, forming, at a little distance, a rather hazy 
mixture, in which the red and white predominates ; 
the throat, breast, and sides of the breast, are white, 
having the feathers barred with pale clove-hrown 
and orange-red ; the quills clove-brown, with white 
shafts, and having the inner webs approaching to 
greyish-white; the under parts pure white; tail 
with the centre feathers lengthened, accumulated, 
and dark clove-brown, the others pale hair-brown, 
becoming lighter towards the outside, the last en- 
tirely white, except a patch of hair-brown near the 
tip of the inner web ; legs, feet and bill, black. In 
the winter state the plumage is very different ; the 
face, anterior to the eyes, and all the lower parts, 
are pure white ; the upper parts a chaste shade of 
brownish ash-grey ; centres of the feathers on the 
head and nape darker, the shafts of the others only, 
appearing marked ; the tips and edges are of a paler 
tint, approaching nearly to white on the wing- 
coverts and secondaries. The bird, when in flight, 
appears very pure and silvery, and contrasted only 
by the shoulders and band of the wing, which are 
nearly greyish-black, and the brownish-black outer 
webs of the quills ; the tail has the grey tint pre- 
vailing instead of the clove-brown. In a young 
state, in which it is often procured in autumn, the 
lower parts are, as before, pure white ; the centre of 
the crown is black, the feathers edged with yellow- 
ish white, shading off to both sides in depth of tint; 
