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SANDERLING. 
The Sanderling in its summer dress has the sides of the neck, 
and whole upper parts, speckled largely with white, black and fer- 
ruginous, the feathers being centred with black, tipt with white, 
and edged with ferruginous, giving the bird a very motley appear- 
ance ; belly and vent pure white ; wing quills black, crossed with a 
band of white ; lesser coverts whitish, centred with pale olive, the 
first two or three rows black ; two middle tail feathers black ; the 
rest pale cinereous, edged with white ; legs and feet black. Both 
males and females varied in .their colors and markings. 
In Brisson’s account of the Sanderling, which he calls La pe- 
tite Maubeche grise, {Calidris grisea minor^ he represents the outer 
toe joined to the middle one by a membrane as far as the first ar- 
ticulation. This we take to be an error in the description, as all 
those we examined had their toes divided to their origin. Latham’s 
Ruddy Plover is said to have its toes thus divided. 
