BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
Arctic America and Greenland are believed to afford the 
principal nesting-grounds for the Knot ; but the first authentic 
eggs were found (June 23rd, 1901) in the Taimyr district of 
Siberia. In winter it occurs on the coasts of western Europe 
and in West Africa as far south as Damaraland ; in America 
it is well known on the Atlantic shore, and it is found in 
Austraha and New Zealand. On the shores of Great Britain 
it is abundant in autumn and winter in suitable locahties, 
except on the coast of Scotland north of the Solway. 
THE SANDERLING. Calidris arenaria (Lmnseus). 
A visitant to the Solway shore on the spring and autumn-migrations. 
The late H. A. Macpherson wrote in 1892 as regards the 
status of this species on the Cumberland shores : " When I 
wrote of the Sanderling in the Birds of Cumberland* our 
local experience of this bird was hmited to the spring and 
autumn— indeed we only knew of one individual obtained 
in winter dress, and that at a distance from the sea. Since 
then I have frequently met with a few Sanderlings near 
Beckfoot in winter, while in December, 1886, Mr. J. N. 
Robinson shot a bird out of a large flock on Burgh Marsh. 
But our reference to the Sanderling as ' not remaining to 
winter' is still true in the main, the bird being of 
course chiefly a spring visitant."t With us this species 
puts in an appearance in August, and again in April, though 
small flocks have been seen so late as the first week in 
June, and it is now observed in winter far more commonl3r 
than in former years. William Hastings told Mr. R. Service 
that in the course of his business career (1 860-1 885)> 
he had occasionally received birds of this species for- 
preservation. Mr. Service, in his paper on " The Waders 
* Birds of Cumberland, 1886, p. 153. 
t Fauna of Lakeland, 1892, pp. 391, 392. 
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