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CHAEADEIIDiE. 



Tringites subruficollis {Vieill.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds, B. M. xxiv. 

 1896, p. 521. 



Subruficollis =s\igh.t\j reddish-necked, from sub, rufus, and collwm. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. It 

 has occurred about eighteen times in England, in the counties 

 o£ Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex, 

 and Cornwall ; also in the Scilly Islands, Lundy Island, 

 Somersetshire, Lancashire, and Cumberland. In Ireland it 

 has been obtained in cos. Dublin and Down. 



General Distrihution. — The Buff-breasted Sandpiper breeds 

 along the Arctic coast o£ North America from northern 

 Alaska to the north o£ Hudson Bay, and apparently in 

 north-east Siberia. In winter it migrates south chiefly by 

 the Mississippi Valley and visits South America, ranging 

 south to Paraguay. It is occasional in the Bermudas and 

 accidental in western Europe. 



Genus CALIDRIS Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Nat. 1811, p. 249. 

 Type : C. arenaria (Linn.). 



Calidns=Kd'htSpis or SKccXiSpis, a epeokled water-bird in Aristotle. Deri- 

 vation unknown. The word is spelt Chalidris by B^lon in 1555. 



Calidris arenaria. Sanderling. 



Tring-a arenaria Linnams, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 



p. 251 : England. 



Calidris arenaria (Linn.); B. O. Z7. Lis't, 1st ed. 1883, p. 172; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 526; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 579. 

 ^?'e'n.a?'fa = pertaining to sand. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Winter Visitor and 

 Bird of Passage, common from August to October and from 

 April to May, but comparatively scarce in the winter. Some 

 non-breeding birds temain throughout the summer. 



General Distribution. — The Sanderling breeds in Arctic 

 North America from Alaska to Grreenland and probably in 



