SANDPIPERS. 95 



SANDERLING. Calidns arenaria, (L.) 



Yarrell, iii. p. 420; Ilarting, p. 49; Dresser, viii. p. loi ; See- 

 bohm, iii. p. 221; Ibis List, p. 172; Charadiius calidris, 

 Pulteney's List, p, 16. 



The Sandeiiing may be distinguished from every 

 other Sandpiper which visits our shores by its short 

 bill, and by the absence of a hind-toe, in which 

 peculiarity it resembles the Plovers. It is a spring 

 and autumn migrant, remaining occasionally during 

 the winter. One in my collection was shot in 

 Kimmeridge Bay in the winter of 1 860. It is usually 

 very common in autumn on the Poole sandbanks 

 and in the neighbourhood of Weymouth. 



RUFF aud REEVE. Machetes pugnax, L. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 426; Ilarting, p. 48; Dresser, viii. p. 87; Ibis 

 List, p. 17 ; Totanus puguax, Seebuhm, iii. p. 113. 



This remarkable bird, the only species of Sand- 

 piper in which the sexes differ conspicuously in size 

 and plumage, is with us a spring and autumn visi- 

 tant, though oftener seen at the latter season. I 

 have notes of a Reeve shot at Poole in 1840, and a 

 Ruff in winter plumage in November of the same 

 year ; occasionally killed at Weymouth and the 

 neighbourhood ; several in the year 1 848 ; a young 

 Ruff shot in the Roke water-meadows, Bere Regis, 

 September 1866; a Reeve shot at Poole 1869; a 

 Ruff in full plumage, August 15, 1872; a young 

 Ruff caught in a trap in a water-meadow at Mil- 



