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autumn. There is no evidence that the Sanderling 

 has ever nested in the British Islands. Eggs from 

 the barren grounds of North America, near the 

 Anderson River (found by Macfarlane), and from 

 Sabine Island (brought home by the German Polar 

 Expedition under Captain Koldevvy), have been 

 figured and described by Prof. Newton (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1871, p. 56, pi. 4, and p. 546). Colonel Feilden, 

 also, when naturalist on board H.M.S. "Alert," in 

 June 1876, found a nest of the Sanderling, contain- 

 ing two eggs, in Smith's Sound, lat. 82° 83'. These 

 are figured in the appendix to Sir George Nares's 

 narrative of that expedition. This bird may be dis- 

 tinguished at all times from the Dunling by its short 

 straight bill and by the absence of a hind-toe. (See 

 PL 20, fig. la.) 



GREY PHALAROPE. Fhalaridopus fulicarius (Lin- 

 nasus). PI. 23, figs. 9, 10, 10a. Length, 8 in. ; bill, 

 1 in. ; wing, 5 in. ; tarsus, 0'8 in. 



This bird in summer plumage is the Tringafuli- 

 caria of Linnaeus, and in its winter dress his Tringa 

 lohata {Syst. Nat., i. p. 249). As to the proper mode 

 of spelling the name of the genus in which it is 

 now placed by common consent, it seems clear 

 that if we change Podiceps for Podicipes (q.v.), to 

 be consistent we must have Phalaridopus, from 

 (paXapig-iSo?, and not Phalaropus (see Murdoch, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii. p. 150; Newtnr., "Diet. 

 Birds," p. 711). 



The Grey Phalarope is an annual visitor in 

 autumn ; in some years unusually numerous, as, 



