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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
GEN\JS—Calidrzs. 
239. Calidris arenaria, Sanderling. 
A common winter visitor to all our coasts, very rare 
inland. 
This bird arrives in August and remains until late in 
May or even June. 
Mr. Hart's specimens are dated May 27th, 1866, June 
1st, 1867, January, 1868, and December, 1882. 
More considered this species far from common in the 
Island, but Dr. Cowper writes i that it may not infre- 
quently be seen along the foreshore, at times in small 
parties of its own species, at other times in company with 
ringed plovers and dunlins. 
There is a specimen from Liphook in the Charterhouse 
Museum.2 
Mr. Victor Willett has a specimen obtained at St. 
Catherine's Lighthouse, in the Isle of Wight, on May 30th, 
1894. 
Genus — Tringoides. 
240. Tringoides hypoleuctis. Common Sandpiper. 
Summer Snipe. 
A summer visitor, arriving in April and departing in 
September, but rarely nesting in the county. 
The bird is met with sparingly throughout our district, 
and principally at the periods of migration, but the only 
' " Hants Court Guide." * Bucknill's Birds of Surrey." 
