SANDERLING. A7T9 
CALIDRIS ARENARIA (L.) ILI. 
Sanderling; Ruddy Plover. 
Calidris arenaria, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 380, (probable); addenda, 489 ; 
Reprint, 1861, 11; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 572; Reprint, 1875, 
12.— LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 15; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 
i, 1879, 132; Reprint, 16; Field Notes, ib., ii, 1830, 127.—Dury and FreEMAN, ib., 
iii, 1880, 104; Reprint, 5. 
Tringa arenaria, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat. 1766, 251. 
Calidris arenaria, ILLIGER, Prod., 1811, 249. 
Adult in summer; head, neck and upper parts varied with black, ashy and bright 
reddish ; below from the breast pure white ; tail except central feathers light-ash, nearly 
white; primaries gray with blackish edges and tips, the shafts of all and bases of most 
white; secondaries white except a space at the end, and greater coverts broadly white 
tipped; bill and feet black. Adult in winter, and young, no reddish; speckled with 
black and white, sometimes tawny tinged on the jugulum. Length, 743-8; wing, 44-53. 
tail, 24; bill, about 1; tarsus, 1 or rather less; middle toe and claw, 3. 
Habitat, Sea-coasts of nearly ali countries. 
Common spring and fall migrant on Lake Irie, less common in the 
interior of the State. The Sanderling, untila few years since considered 
an exclusively maritime species, is common on the Great Lakes, Mr. 
Nelson says it is met with on Lake Michigan in flocks of from five to 
seventy-five birds, frequenting the sandy beaches in company with the 
Piping Plover. Mr. Chubb informs me that it is common on Lake Hrie 
_near Cleveland. 
Mr. Langdon in 1877, mentions a specimen, from the vicinity of Cin- . 
cinnati, in the collection of Dr. Byrnes; in 1879 he notes its capture on 
several occasions, and mentions additional specimens in the collection of 
Charles Dury, and in 1880, a specimen taken on the Ohio, opposite Cin- 
cinnati, by Mr. Shorten, in September, 1879. Messrs. Dury and Freeman 
note its occurrence September 15, 1878. I have seen it but once from 
this vicinity, in October, 1874, when I obtained a specimen from a sports- 
man, who informed me they were at that time not uncommon in the 
vicinity of Shadeville, associating with Pectoral Sandpipers. 
GrEWus LIMOSA. Brisson. 
Bill longer than tarsus, slender, and curving gently upwards, grooved to near the tip. 
Gape not extending beyond base of furrowed culmen. Tarsus scutellate in front and 
behind, reticulate laterally ; a short basal membrane between middle and outer toes. 
Tail short, even. 
