Family CHARADRIID/E. Genus Tringa. 



Subfamily Scolopacinai. 



SANDERLING. 



TRINGA KKYMKKYK—Linnmus. 



Geograjrflical Distribution. — British .• Common visitor on 

 spring and autumn migration, most abundant during the latter, a 

 few remaining behind in the fall to winter, especially in the mild 

 climate of the south. Visits all the islands as well as the main- 

 land coasts, including the Orkneys and Shetlands, the Hebrides 

 and the Channel Islands. Occasionally occurs some distance 

 inland, especially near large sheets of water. Foreign : Circum- 

 polar region in summer, Palseartic and Nearctic regions chiefly on 

 passage ; Ethiopian, Oriental, and Neotropical regions in winter. 

 Probably breeds in suitable localities on all the shores of the 

 Arctic Ocean, although its known breeding grounds are remark- 

 ably few. In the Old World its eggs appear only to have been 

 taken in Iceland (lat. 65°), although it is to be met with during 

 summer on the Golaievskai Islands in the Petchora Gulf, the 

 Waigats, Nova Zembla, the delta of the Yenesay, the Taimyr 

 peninsula, and the Liakoff Islands. In the New World portion of 

 the Circumpolar region its eggs have been taken on the Anderson 

 River (lat. 68°), on the Parry Isles (lat. 78°), in Grinnell Land 

 (lat. 82}^°), and in Greenland on the west coast near Smith 

 Sound (lat. 79°), and Godthaab (nestlings) (lat. 63°), on the east 

 coast Sabine Island (lat. 743^°)- It is also a common bird 

 during summer in Alaska. It passes the coasts of Europe, Asia, 

 and America, as well as along many internal routes, on migra- 

 tion, and winters in the basin of the Mediterranean, on the 

 coasts of Africa, and the Mekran coast, but becomes rare in 



