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to breed. M. Nilsson says it visits the shores of Sweden, 

 and breeds farther north. Faber states that it appears 

 in Iceland, but leaves and goes farther north to breed on 

 the coasts of Greenland and Labrador. Colonel Sabine, 

 in the Appendix to $ir Edward Parry's First Arctic 

 Voyage, says, " The Sanderling breeds in considerable 

 numbers on the North Georgian Islands ; several pairs 

 were killed at different periods of the breeding-season, the 

 males and females of which were invariably found to differ 

 in their plumage ; the general colour of the female being 

 lighter, and having more cinereous and less of black and 

 reddish marking than that of the male : this is especially 

 the case on the chin, throat, and fore part of the neck ; 

 which may be described in the female as white, with a very 

 slight sprinkling of dark spots, and scarcely any appearance 

 of red ; whereas in the males, the dark colours greatly pre- 

 dominate." Sir John Richardson says this bird breeds on 

 the coast of Hudson's Bay as low as the fifty-fifth parallel. 

 Mr. Hutchins informs us that it makes its nest in the 

 marshes, rudely of grass, and lays four dusky-coloured 

 eggs, spotted with black ; incubation commencing in the 

 middle of June. The Sanderling is very well known to 

 the Ornithologists of the United States, who mention that 

 it goes very far to the south in winter ; and Mr. Gould 

 says it is very plentiful in Brazil, from whence he has 

 received specimens which did not present the slightest 

 difference either from those of our own island, from 

 Africa, or Asia. 



M. Temminck says this bird is abundant in spring and 

 autumn on the coast of Holland ; it is found also on the 

 shores of France and Italy, and occurs occasionally at Nice 

 and Genoa in every state of plumage. It is sometimes 

 seen in Sicily in the spring on its passage northward. It 

 has been met with on the shores of the Black Sea : Dr. A. 



