PLATE CXLVI. 



The name of Sanderling is indircrlminately applltd, by different 

 writers, to two very diltina birds of rbe GrallcC order, namely, the 

 Common Purre, or Ox-bird (Tringa Cinclns) and theprefent fpecies, 

 Charadrius Calidris ; and to obviate mifunderilanding in this refpeB^ 

 it is conceived the latter may, with fome propriety, be denominated 

 the Sanderling Plover. 



About eight inches is the ufual length of this bird : its colours 

 above cinereous, wiih the head, back of the neck, and fides of the 

 bread, dafhed with black llreaks : wings greyifh and brown, with 

 the edges of the feathers pale, and quill feathers dufky : tad brownifh, 

 with pale margins. The fpecies is fubjeft to occafional variation in 

 the colour of the plumage. 



Thefe birds appear in fmall flocks on the fandy {bores of Cornwall 

 during the winter feafon ; and are rarely obferved, it is believed, on 

 any other part of the Englifii coaft. On the continent of Europe 

 the fpecies is not common ; in North America it is more abundant. 



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