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SANDERLING PLOVER. Cuass IL 
_ These birds frequent our shores in the sum- 
mer, but are not numerous: They lay four 
~ eggs of a dull whitish color, sparingly sprinkled 
5. SANDER- 
LING. 
DESCRIP- 
TION. 
with black: at the approach of winter they dis- 
appear. * 
Charadrius Calidris. Ch. ros- Towillee. Borlase hist. Corn 
tro -pedibusque nigris, loris wal. 247, 
. uropygiogue subgriseis, cor- Calidris grisea minor, la pe- | 
. pore subtus albo immacula- tite Maubeche grise. Brisson 
to. Lath. Ind. orn. 741. id. av. v. 236. Tab. 20. fig. 2. 
Syn. v. 197. id. Sup. i.253. - Hist. @ois. vii. 532. 
id. Sup. il. 315. Charadrius Calidris. Gm. Lin. 
Sanderling, or Curwillet. 77. 681. 
orn. 303. Br. Zool. 129. add, plates. 
Raii Syn. av. 109. Arct. Zool. ii. 192. 
WE have received this species out of Lan- 
cashire ; but it is found in greater plenty on the 
Cornish shores, where they fly in flocks. The 
sanderling weighs little more than one ounce 
three quarters. Its length is eight inches ; ex- 
tent fifteen. Its body is of a more slender 
form than others of the genus. The bill is an 
* The young of this bird has been described as a distinct spe- 
cies under the name of the Kentish Plover; but Mr. Montagu, 
in the seventh volume of the Linnean Transactions, seems clearly 
to prove their identity. Ep. 
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