26 Mr. Ma rkwickV Catalogue of Birds 



toe, except one I lliot on the 22d of September 1792, which, to my 

 great furprifc, had a imall back toe. 



No. 125. — The Sea Lark. Charadrius Watlciihu 

 Thefe birds are very common on our fea-coaft in the fummer ; 

 but I have reafon to think that they, or at lead the generality of 

 them, leave us in the winter ; for, during my refidence at Haftings, 

 from the 19th of November 1792 to the nth of February 1793^ I 

 never once faw this bird, although I was conftantly on the look- 

 out to take particular notice of this and other fea-birds ; but I re- 

 member one inftance of this bird's being killed during a hard froft 

 in the winter by the fea-fide, near Pevenfey ; and I have more than 

 ,once obferved it fo early as February and IV&arch, particularly on 

 the 19th of February 1787. 



No, 126.— The Sanderling, or Curwillet. Charadnus Ca/idns. 



Thefe birds frequent our fea-coaft in the winter, and are feen in 

 large flocks. I received two of them in about a fortnight after I 

 had drawn and defcribed the fmali grey Sandpiper : they were fo 

 different from that bird in {hape, colour, and particularly in the 

 total want of a back toe, that I have no doubt of their being a 

 difrina fpecies, and even that they belong to a different genul as 

 Linnaeus has placed them. 



No. 127.— The Sea-Pie, or Oyfter-catcher. H^maiopus ojrakgus. 



It is called here the Olive. I have frequently feen them in pairs 

 on our fea-coaft in the fummer, but do not recoiled having ever 

 feen them in the winter. 



No. 133 —The Crefted or Tippet Grebe. Podiceps crijiatus. 

 This bird is fometimes found here in hard winters. In the year 

 1789 I had a dead bird of this fpecies in my polfeffion : its head 



appeared 



