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APPENDIX I. 
To follow my article on Li/micola platyrhyncha is the following on an additional species : — 
Genus CALIDRIS. 
Similar to Tringa, but with hind toe wanting. 
CALIDRIS AREN ARIA. 
(THE SANDEKLING.) 
Tringa arenaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766). 
Charadrius calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766). 
Calidris arenaria (Linn.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 270 (1849) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 694 (1864) ; 
Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1196 (1873) ; Hume, Str. Eeath. 1873, p. 244, et 1876, p. 465, et 1879 
(List B. of Ind.), p. 113; Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 59, 60 (1877); Eeilden, Ibis, 1877, p. 406. 
Ruddy Plover, Lath. ; Yamgchurchi, Turkestan. 
Adult male. (Ceylon, 10th Dec. 1879) “Length 7 -75 inches ; wing 4-75 ; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 1-0; middle toe 0-75; bill 
at front 1-0 ” (Ha ly). (Sindh) “ Length 7'5 ; wing4'7; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 0-92; bill at front 0-93; weight 1-7 oz.” 
(Hume). — Female (Turkestan). “Length 7'8 ; wing4'73; tail 1-95; tarsus 1-0; bill from gape IT ” (Scully). 
Male. (Missolonghi, Mus. Harting) Wing 4'75 ; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 1-0 ; middle toe and claw 08 ; bill at front 1-0. 
(South Africa, Mus. Harting) Wing 5-0 ; tail 2-3 ; tarsus 1-03 ; middle toe and claw 0-75 ; bill at front 0-98. 
(New Jersey, North America) Wing 5-2 ; tail 2-4 ; tarsus IT ; middle toe and claw 0-75 ; bill at front 1-07. 
Iris brown ; bill black ; legs and feet black. 
Breeding-plumage (Missolonghi). Leathers of the head, lower hind neck, interscapulars, and scapulars black, with 
broad lateral rufous margins and tips of white, the latter broadest at the ends of the longer overlying scapulars ; 
forehead and hind neck brown, with greyish rufescent edgings to the feathers ; in front of the eye a black border 
preceded by rufous, black-centred feathers, which spread down over the fore neck and throat, where they are 
conspicuously tipped with white ; on the sides of the chest these markings take the form of crescentic bars near 
the tip ; under surface, with the under tail-coverts and under wing, white ; back and rump blackish brow'n, the 
feathers tipped in some parts with white, in others with rufous ; upper tail-coverts black, with the same markings ; 
tail brown, the inner webs of the two centre feathers blackish, the margins of the whole white ; lesser wing- 
coverts blackish brown ; median and greater brown, tipped with white ; primaries and secondaries blackish brown; 
the shafts white, with the 2nd brownish at the base ; tips and outer edges of the secondaries white ; edge of the 
wing beneath brown ; inner primaries with the bases of the outer webs white. 
Another example from New Jersey, the measurements of which are given above, is in a peculiar pale phase of plumage : — 
Crown, interscapulars, and scapulars black, with broad white edgings, taking the form of marginal spots, on the scapulars ; 
a dark patch through the lores ; space above them, forehead, entire under surface, and neck white, the feathers 
at the back with pale brownish central streaks ; poiut of the wing blackish brown ; most of the remaining wing- 
coverts white ; quills as above, but with more white at the base of the inner primaries ; back and rump sinoky 
blackish, tinged with buff, and with an almost straight transverse mark near the tip ; tail whitish, passing into 
brown on the outer webs and at the tips of the feathers ; the central feathers more darkly coloured than the 
rest. 
Winter plumage (South Africa). Above pale cinereous, the forehead, face, and all the underparts white ; the shaft- 
streaks of the head-feathers blackish brown ; the hind neck pale greyish ; shaft-streaks of the back-feathers 
brownish ; rump darker than the upper back ; tail pale brownish, edged with white, the outer feathers tipped 
with dark brown ; lower wing-coverts brown ; wing as in summer plumage. 
1 oung (half-fledged nestling). Back and scapulars black, with rufous-buff edgings ; head dark brown, the feathers 
edged with buff, which colour overspreads the back of the neck ; through the lores a black stripe, and a smaller 
more indistinct one along the cheek ; wing-coverts greyish cinereous ; median and greater series tipped broadly 
