114 A CATALOGUE OF THE BlEDii 



19. Jace S:i^irE. G, galiintjla, (Limmus.) 



Scolopax gallinula, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 

 132. 

 „ ,, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, III., 33. 



An autumn and winter visitant. Less numerous than the Com- 

 mon Snipe, it arrives in October and departs in spring. I have 

 seen it at Prestwick Car and other places at the beginning of 

 May, when the Common Snipe and Eedshank have eggs. 



109. CALIDRIS, Illiger. 



20. Sandeeling. C. aeenakia, {Linnam.) 



Calidris arenaria, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 4. 

 „ „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 491. 



An autumn and wiater visitant ; plentiful on our coast in au- 

 tumn, but much rarer in the winter. The earliest arrivals, 

 which take place in July and August, retain, when they first 

 appear, more or less of their summer plumage. 



The late Mr. Dent, of Streatlam, shot, at Seaton Snook, at 

 the mouth of the Tees, in the summer of 1833 or 1834, a specimen 

 in complete summer plumage. It rose from a nest, which that 

 gentleman supposed to belong to it ; the nest contained four eggs 

 much incubated, one of which is now in my possession, along 

 with the supposed parent bird. The egg is like that of the Eing 

 Dotterel, so that I cannot but believe that there must have been 

 some mistake ; the bird, nevertheless, has all the appearance of 

 a breeding individual 



I have shot the Sanderling in full summer dress, at Burgh 

 ^larsh, Cumberland, on the 30th of May, at which time this 

 species was in flocks, and certainly not breeding. 



In 1863, Mr. "William Proctor received from Iceland two speci- 

 mens of this bird in complete summer plumage, along with three 

 eggs, stated by his Icelandic correspondent to belong to these 

 birds, both of which, as well as one of the eggs, I now possess* 

 The latter resembles the egg of the Eing Dotterel, but is con- 

 siderably smaller, and less glossy. I can see no reason to doubt 



