322 PLOVER. 



Cantire, on the 2d of June;* hence no doubt they must breed 

 there, as they certainly do in Kent ; I have received the eggs from 

 thence, which are about the size of those of a Blackbird, of a light 

 olive, with dusky and brown spots. It is probably met with on 

 many parts of the Continent ; said to be frequent about the Lake 

 Baikal, extending to India, and has been brought from New South 

 Wales, but is there a scarce bird : I have only seen it from thence 

 in the adult state, but no doubt is subject to the same variation of 

 feather. The English at Port Jackson call it Sea, or Shore Lark, but 

 the name given to it by the natives is Waddergal. 



A. — Size of a Snipe. Bill black ; upper parts of the body 

 brownish ash-colour, mixed with darker brown, and streaked with 

 black ; forehead and under parts cinereous white; lesser and middle 

 wing coverts black, fringed with ash, the greater cinereous, with 

 whitish edges; quills and tail dusky; legs black. 



Inhabits Newfoundland, where it is gregarious. How far this 

 and the Lesser Grey Sandpiper are allied must be left to future 

 discovery; for though the plumage is not far different, the former 

 has a back toe complete, with a claw attached ; the latter without 

 the rudiment of either. Linnaeus has by some means taken one and 

 the same bird in Brisson for his Tringa Arenaria and Charadrius 

 Calidris ; which the author describes as having only three toes, but 

 has, nevertheless, ranked it with his Tringse, all of which have four; 

 and remarks, the being without, as a singularity.-]- This matter is 

 not easily reconcileable, otherwise than by supposing a variation 

 to take place in respect to the complete hind toe ; and although 

 we find individuals of the Plover Genus will sometimes possess 

 a hind claw, we do not recollect that this variation proceeds farther. 



Among the collection of drawings of Sir J. Anstruther, is a bird 

 answering to the description of the Sanderling, but less in size ; it 

 was called Chipta. 



* Lin. Trans, viii. 26S. f " Digito postico caret, quod maxime singulave." 



