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ORD. I. GEN. VII. PLOVER. 



SPE. III. SANDERLING. 



PI. 184. 



Charadrius calidris. Lin. Syft. I. p. 2.55. 



Tringa arenaria. lb. p. 251. 



La petite maubeche grife. Brif. Orn, V. p. 236. 



This bird is about the fize and length of the purre, and weighs one ounce 

 and three quarters. The bill is black: the fore part of the head, fides beneath 

 the eyes, and the under parts of the body, from the chin to the vent, white : 

 through the eyes paries a greyifh ftreak : the upper part of the head, neck, and 

 body, are afh-coloured, ftreaked with black j on the back and fcapulars inclin- 

 ing to a brownifh grey, edged with dirty white : wing coverts, and quills, 

 dufky : tail feathers, afh-coloured, with pale margins : legs, black : the wings 

 reach a little beyond the end of the tail. 



Like the purre it differs extremely from age j the young birds being more 

 or lefs brown, the feathers edged with ruft-colour, and not acquiring the per- 

 fect plumage till the fecond year. 



It is frequently met with in flocks on our fea coafts, along with the purre, 

 in the winter feafon, and bears indifcriminately with it the name of ox- bird. 

 In fummer the fanderlings difperfe, and are found in pairs on the fhores, where 

 they lay their eggs, and hatch their young. The egg is delineated in 

 PL XL. Fig. 1. 



