. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Wings very long, pointed ; 236 CALIDEIS. SANDERLING. quills twenty-five; primaries tapering, the first longest;secondaries short, incurved, but the inner elongated, one ofthem not much shorter than the first primary when thewing is closed. Tail short, of twelve narrowed feathers, andsomewhat doubly emarginate. The only species of this genus kno
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Wings very long, pointed ; 236 CALIDEIS. SANDERLING. quills twenty-five; primaries tapering, the first longest;secondaries short, incurved, but the inner elongated, one ofthem not much shorter than the first primary when thewing is closed. Tail short, of twelve narrowed feathers, andsomewhat doubly emarginate. The only species of this genus known to me has thehabits of the 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 who give it astation between the Turnstone and the Oyster-catcher, fromboth of which it widely differs, may possibly consider suchremarks uncalled for. Very interesting, too, it would beto know the physiological facts and logical arguments, bywhich the Ardeida? are made to occupy a station intermediatebetween Plovers and Snipes. 237 CALIDRIS ARENARIA. THE COMMONSANDERLING. CURWILLET. TOWILLY. SAND LARK. Fig. 19. Tringa arenaria. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 255. Ckaradrius calidris. Linn. Syst. Nat. f. 25-5. Charadrius calidris. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 741. Charadrius rubidus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 740. Sanderling. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sanderling variable. Calidris arenaria. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 524. Calidris arenaria. Common Sanderling. Flem. Brit. Anim. 112. Common Sanderling. Arenaria Calidris. Selb. Ulustr. II. 208. Calidris arenaria. Sanderling. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 183. Calidris arenaria. Bonap. Conip. List. 50. In winter the upper parts pale grey, with dusky lines ; thelower white; wings black and grey with a white band. Insummer the upper parts variegated with black and red; thelower red anteriorly, white behind. Young with the upperparts black, a
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