4«° 



SANDERLING. 



Class II. 



black line \ the cheeks are of the fame color ; the 

 forehead white, bounded by a black band that 

 paftes over from eye to eye •, the crown of the head 

 is of a fine light brown ; the upper part of the 

 neck is incircled with a white collar; the lower part 

 with a black one; the back and coverts of the 

 wings of a light brown ; the bread and belly 

 white ; the tail brown, tipt with a darker (hade ; 

 the legs yellow. 



Thefe birds frequent our mores in the fummer, 

 but are not numerous. They lay four eggs of a 

 dull whitifh color, fparingiy fprinkled with black : 

 at approach of winter they difappear. 



212. Sand- Sandcrling, or Curwillet. 

 erling. Wil. orn. 303. 



Raiijyn. av. 109. 

 Towillee. Borlafe hiji. Com- 



"j.'aL 247. 

 Calidris grifea minor, la pe- 



tite Maubeche grife. Briffbn 

 a<v. V. 236. Tab. 20. 

 fig. 2. 



Charadrius Caladris. Lin.fyft. 



255. 

 Br. Zool. 129. add. plates. 



Descrip, 



WE have received this fpecies out of Lan- 

 cajhire ; but it is found in greater plenty 

 on the Cornifn fhores, where they fly in flocks. The 

 fanderling weighs little more than one ounce three 

 quarters. Its length is eight inches ; extent fifteen. 

 Its body is of a more (lender form than others of 

 the genus. The bill is an inch long, weak and 

 black. The head, and hind part of the neck are 



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