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it had better be noted that when a Sanderling is put 

 tip he rises with a single-syllabled ' Wide ! ' 



DUNLIN — 8 inches ; has a large black patch on the helly 

 in summer; in winter the chest is clouded, not pure 

 ■white as in the Sanderling. Note, 'Slcree!' 



KNOT — 10 inches. The rump is white in winter, and white, 

 strongly flushed with chestnut, in summer. The rump 

 in the Sanderling is ash-gray. 



COMMON SANDPIPER, or SUMMER SNIPE.— 



Plate 109. Length, 8 inches. Upper parts brown; 

 a band of paler brown passing from the sides of the 

 neck over the upper breast, the band being sharp- 

 edged below, but vanishing imperceptibly above ; fore- 

 cheeks and under parts white ; central tail-feathers 

 brown, tipped with white ; outer tail-feathers in- 

 creasingly white from the inner to the outermost 

 ones. Summer migrant. 



Eggs. — 4, pear-shaped, cream-yellow, spotted and 

 lightly blotched with red-brown, and having pale- 

 gray undermarkings ; 1'45 ^ I'O inch (plate 135). 



Nest. — A hollow, usually under cover of a tussock 

 of grass, and lined with dry grass and bits of any 

 other dead growth on the spot. 



This bird passes in its northward migration in the 

 spring, and again southwards in the autumn, some of 

 the birds remaining to breed in all parts of the British 

 Isles except the south-eastern counties of England. 

 It may be encountered singly, in pairs, or in small 

 flocks by river-sides, the margin of open waters, or 

 on the tidal flats. When seen standing with closed 

 wings, the bird shows conspicuously white on the 



