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SANDERLING, 



CUKWILLET. TOWILLT. 



Arenaria ca/idris, GOULD. 



" vulyurts, STEPHKXS. 



Calidris areanria, TRMMIXCK. JfiNYNS. 



Uiaradnns calidrit, PENNANT. 



** rubidt,s, GMKLIN. 



Arenaria. Arena Sand sea-shore. Calidris ? 



THIS is a bird of very pleasing appearance, and tolerably 

 well known on most of the sandy shores of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, as well as at times met with by the side of 

 inland waters. 



It appears in Iceland, Greenland, Siberia, Sweden, Denmark, 

 Norway, and other parts of the north of our continent, as 

 well as in the south, in France, Germany, Italy, and Holland; 

 also in Labrador, and other arctic regions of America, and in 

 the North Georgian Islands. It goes, on the other hand, as 

 far south as Mexico and the Brazils, and is met with likewise 

 in northern Africa, and in Asia on the shores of the Black 

 Sea, and the lakes and rivers of Persia, and in Japan, it is 

 said, and in Sunda and New Guinea. 



The Sanderling is not very unfrequent on the English 

 shores, throughout the island; seventeen were shot in one 

 day, October 12th., 1846, in some stormy weather, in the 

 neighbourhood of Brighton, but not one specimen, says Mr. 

 Thomas Thorncroft, writing to me on the 29th. of May, 

 1850, has occurred there since. In Yorkshire they have been 

 met at the mouth of the Tees; also near Burlington, and 

 along the coast, generally in the autumn. In Cornwall, 

 near Falmouth, they are uncommon. In Norfolk they occur, 



