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SANDERLING PLOVER. Class II. 



These birds frequent our shores in the sum- 

 mer, but are not numerous. They lay four 

 eggs of a dull whitish color, sparingly sprinkled 

 with black : at the approach of winter they dis- 

 appear.* 



5. Sander- Charadrius Calidris. Ch. ros- 

 LING. j.j.^ pedibusque nigris, loris 



uropygioque subgriseis, cor- 

 pore subtus albo immacula- 

 to. Lath. Ind. orn. 741. id. 

 Syn. V. 197. id. Sup. i. 253. 

 id. Sup. ii. 315. 



Sanderling, or Curwillet. Jf'il. 

 orn. 303. 



Rati Syn. av. lOQ. 



Descrip- 

 Tiosr. 



Towillee. Borlase hist. Corn- 

 ival. 247. 



Calidris grisea minor, la pe- 

 tite Maubeche grise. Srisson 

 av.v. 236. Tah. HO. Jig. 2. 

 Hist, d'ois. vii. 532. 



Charadrius Calidris. Gm. Lin. 

 681. 



Br. Zool. 129. add. plates. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. I92. 



W E have received this species out of Lan- 

 cashire ; but it is found in greater plenty on the 

 Cornish shores, where they fly in flocks. The 

 sanderling weighs little more than one ounce 

 three quarters. Its length is eight inches ; ex- 

 tent fifteen. Its body is of a more slender 

 form than others of the genus. The bill is an 



* Tlie young of this bird has been described as a distinct spe- 

 cies under the name of the Kentish Plover ; but IMr. Montagu, 

 in the seventh volume of the Linnean Transaptjons, seems clearly 

 to prove their identity. En. 



