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SCOLOPACIN^. PHALAROPUS. 
Bill about the length of the head, straight, and with the feet black ; 
hind toe wanting. In winter the general colour of the plumage ash- 
grey, the lower parts pure white ; alula and primaries brownish-black, 
the latter with more or less white on their outer webs, or along the 
shaft ; secondaries white, the outer with a patch of black towards the 
end, the inner ash-grey ; primary coverts greyish -black, tipped with 
white ; middle tail-feathers greyish-brown, their shafts white, the rest 
of a paler tint on the outer webs, white on the inner, the lateral almost 
pure white. In summer the upper parts of the head, hind neck, late- 
ral, and fore part of the neck, pale yellowish-rec^ streaked with 
brownish-black ; the back similarly marked, with larger spots, and on 
the scapulars disposed in bars ; the tips of most of the feathers grey- 
ish-white ; the other parts as in winter, 
ilfa/e, 7 tIj 124 . 
From Texas along the coast to Maine in autumn and spring, ex- 
tremely abundant. Breeds from Lat. 65 ° northward. 
Ruddy Plover, Charadrius rubidus, Wus. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 129. Summer. 
Sanderling Plover, Charadrius Calidris, Wils. Amer. Om. v. vii. p. 68. Winter. 
Calidris arenaria, Sanderling, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 366. 
Sanderling Plover, Calidris arenaria, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 4. 
Sanderling, Tringa arenaria, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 231 ; v. v. p. 582. 
GENUS II. PHALAROPUS, Briss, PHALAROPE. 
Bill scarcely longer than the head, straight, slender, at 
the base somewhat cylindrical, toward the end broader and 
flattened, the tips narrowed ; upper mandible with the dor- 
sal line straight, excepting at the end, where it is a little 
decurved, the ridge convex, flattened at the broad part, the 
sides slightly sloping, the edges rounded, and near the tip 
inflected ; nasal groove linear, extending to near the tip ; 
lower mandible with the angle very long and narrow, the 
sides convex and sloping outwards, the tip narrowed^ Nos- 
trils basal, linear-elliptical. Head small, with the fore part 
high and rounded ; neck of moderate length-, body rather 
full. Feet rather short, slender ; tibia bare a short way 
above the joint ; tarsus much compressed, narrowed before 
and behind, covered anteriorly with numerous scutella; toes 
very slender, first extremely small, free, with a slight mem- 
brane beneath ; second shorter than the fourth ; third toe 
much longer, all scutellate above, the anterior margined on 
