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according to Dr. Kriiper, it is but seldom to be met with. Captain Sperling obtained one in 

 winter dress at Missolonghi ; and Lord Lilford records it from Corfu as very rare, and adds that 

 a birdstuffer brought to him three specimens in the spring of 1858, which were the only ones he 

 ever saw there. According to Dr. Anton Fritsch (J. f. Orn. 1871, p. 387), it has been twice 

 killed in Bohemia — once near Frauenberg in 1869, and once near Bregau in November 1854 ; 

 but it is very rare in Southern Germany, though it occurs here and there, and Messrs. Danford 

 and Harvie-Brown state that solitary examples have been procured in various parts of Transyl- 

 vania. It occurs also in Southern Russia, and doubtless also in Asia Minor, though I have no 

 data respecting it from there ; and Canon Tristram met with it in Palestine. In North-east 

 Africa it appears to be a rather rare straggler. Von Heuglin says that it is of somewhat 

 uncommon occurrence on the north coast of Egypt, but he met with it there in April and early 

 in May in summer plumage. He never saw it on the Nile, where, according to Vierthaler, it 

 has straggled as far as the Blue Nile. In the autumn and winter it is very common on the 

 shores of the Red Sea, southwards to the Gulf of Aden ; and examples obtained at Ras Belul in 

 September were also in summer dress. It was most numerous in October and November on the 

 Somali coast, not far from Berbera and Lasgori. It occurs on the coast of Algeria ; Colonel Irby 

 states that he saw large flights of Sanderlings, early in April, between Tetuan and Ceuta, and 

 that Favier says : — " This bird is abundant during migration near Tangier in small flocks along 

 the coast, crossing the Straits during March, April, and May ; they are found returning south as 

 late as December. I found numbers near Tetuan in February 1848, at the mouth of the river, 

 where they are known to the Moors under the name of Medrouan." On the west coast of Africa 

 it has been obtained at various places as far south as the Cape of Good Hope, as, for instance, 

 Gambia, Bissao, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Gaboon, and Benguela. Mr. Andersson states 

 (B. of Damara L. p. 311) that it is very common on the coast of Damara Land, but is only 

 sparingly met with inland ; and Captain Shelley found it very plentiful at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Mr. Godman does not record it from Madeira or the Canaries ; but Dr. Carl Bolle 

 says that it is met with as a straggler in the latter islands ; and Vernon Harcourt records it 

 from Madeira. It is also found on the east coast of Africa. Mr. J. H. Gurney records it (Ibis, 

 1865, p. 272) from Natal; it has been met with in Mozambique; and Messrs. Roch and E. 

 Newton killed two or three birds at Hivoondroo, in Madagascar, which, they say (Ibis, 1863, 

 p. 169), they felt sure were Sanderlings. In Asia it is found as far east as Japan. It has been 

 recorded from the Caspian Sea ; Mr. Blanford states that, though very rare in India, it was 

 the commonest Wader on the Makran coast; and Mr. A. O. Hume found it abundant at 

 Kurrachee. According to Dr. Jerdon (B. of India, ii. p. 694), it is rare in India. He only 

 obtained it on the coast at Nellore, where it was tolerably abundant. Captain J. Hayes Lloyd 

 says (Ibis, 1873, p. 417) that he met with it in large flocks, consorting with the Pygmy Curlew, 

 on the shores of the Gulf of Kuchh. 



In Siberia it is not uncommon, passing far north to breed. Von Middendorff says that the 

 Sanderling arrived on the Taimyr, in 74° N. lat., on the 4th June, and was met with up to 75°, 

 being more numerous the further north it was observed, but always in small parties of five or 

 six individuals. On the Boganida one was shot on the 8th, and another on the 10th of June. 

 Messrs. Dybowski and Parvex observed it during passage in Dauria; and, according to the 



