. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . long, pointed; 236 CALIDRIS. SAXDERLING. quills twcnty-fivo; priinarios tappiing, the first longest;secondaries short, incurved, but tlic inner elongated, one ofthem not nnich shorter tliau the first primary Avhen theAving is closed. Tail short, of twelve narrowed feathers, andsomewhat doubly emarginate. The only species of this genus known to m
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . long, pointed; 236 CALIDRIS. SAXDERLING. quills twcnty-fivo; priinarios tappiing, the first longest;secondaries short, incurved, but tlic inner elongated, one ofthem not nnich shorter tliau the first primary Avhen theAving is closed. Tail short, of twelve narrowed feathers, andsomewhat doubly emarginate. The only species of this genus known to me has thehabits of tlic Dunlin, to which also it is nearly allied instructure and form. How any one, misled, perhaps, by theabsence of a hind toe, should place it in connection with thePlovers, it would be difficult to say. They avIio give it astation between the Turnstone and the Oyster-catcher, fromboth of which it widely differs, may possibly consider suchremarks uncalled for. A cry interesting, too, it would beto know the physiological facts and logical argimients, byAvhich the Ardeidie are made to occupy a station intermediatebetween Plovers and Snipes. 237 CALIDRTS ARENARIA. THE CO^NIMONSANDERLING. CURWILLET. TOWILLY. SAND LARK. Fig. 19. Tringa arcuaria. Lian. Syst. Nat. I. 2oo. Charadrius calidris. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 255. Charadrius calidris. Lath. Ind. Orii. II. 74L Charadrius vubidus. Lath. Ind. Om. II. 740. SandcrUng. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sanderling variable. Calidris arenaria. Tcmm. Man. dOrn. II. 524. Calidris arenaria. Common Sanderling. Fleni. Brit. Anim. 112. Common Sanderling. Arenaria Calidris. Selb. Illustr. II. 208. Calidris arenaria. Sanderling. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 183. Calidris arenaria. Bonap. Comp. List. 50. Ill iciiitci tJic upper parts pale grey, with dusky lines ; tlielower irhite ; wings black and grey with a ivhite hand. In>iummer the upper parts variegated with black and red; thelower red anteriorly, ivhite behind. Young ivith the upperp
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