406 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Genus CALIDRIS, Cuvier. 

 SANDERLING. 



Calidrls arenaria (Linnaeus). H.N., i., p. 251 (1766). 



Ox-Bird. 



During the autumn and spring the SanderUng is 

 usually found associating with the rest of our waders 

 on all the large sands and mud-flats on the coast and 

 estuaries of Kent. 



Mr. J. A. Clarke says that Mr. E. M. Presland shot 

 one at Gravesend in the spring of 1864. 



Specimens m Mr. E. T. Booth's collection at Brighton, 

 in winter plumage, were obtained in March, 1866, be- 

 tween Bye Harbour and Dungeness Point, and others 

 in autumn plumage were obtained in September, 1869, 

 on the Kentish coast. 



Captain Boyd Alexander, in his notes from Bomney 

 Marsh, 1896, writes: "On May 29 the first flock of 

 Sanderlings appeared. They were in full summer dress. 

 The female of this species seems more backward in 

 assuming the nuptial dress than the male. A female out 

 of this flock was obtained with plumage hardly differing 

 from that attained in autumn. The resemblance in the 

 markings of the crown, nape, and mantle, and especially 

 the latter, of the male Dunlin and Sanderling in summer 

 dress, is very remarkable. The last flock of Sanderlings 

 was seen here on June 2." 



