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SANDERLING SANDPIPER. 
larger, and on the scapulars disposed in bars ; the tips of most of the 
feathers greyish-white, the wings and tail are as in winter. 
Mouth extremely narrow, its width only 2 twelfths. Palate moderately 
concave, as in the Snipes, with two series of reversed papilla?. Tongue 11 
twelfths long, slender, tapering, concave above, horny toward the end. 
(Esophagus 3 inches 2 twelfths long, two twelfths wide ; proventriculus 3 
twelfths in breadth. Stomach large, roundish, oblique, 10 twelfths long, 9 
twelfths in breadth ; its lateral muscles large ; the epithelium dense, longi- 
tudinally rugous, and of a reddish colour. Contents of stomach remains 
of insects and sand. Intestine 91 inches long, its width 2 h twelfths ; cceca 
1 inch 1 twelfth long, 14 twelfths in width, their distance from the extre- 
mity Ti inches ; rectum slightly dilated at the end. Trachea inches 
long, its breadth 2 twelfths, much flattened ; the rings very narrow, unos- 
sified, 130 in number. Bronchial half rings about 15. Muscles as in other 
genera of this family. 
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 dorsal 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 round- 
ed; 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 membrane beneath; second 
shorter than the fourth ; third toe much longer, all scutellate above, the 
anterior margined on both sides with lobed and pectinated membranes, 
which are united at the base, so as to render the foot nearly half-webbed, the 
outer web much longer than the inner. Claws very small, compressed, 
