SANDEULING. 
CALIDRIS JRENJIUA. 
The Lome of the Sanderhng ,u this couutry is. as its name would seem to indieate, along the sandy shores 
0 t e open sea I can Had no entry m my notes referring to the fact that this bird has been met with 
at any distance from salt water. I well remember, however, during the severe weather in December 1871 
w en icklmg Broad was entirely laid with ice. with the exception of the wakes in the channel kept 
open by the keepers for the Swans and Coots, that a Sandcrling. in company with a couple of DunUns 
swep round the open water and finally settled on the ice. This species, according to my own observation 
may he met with during every month in the year on various parts of the shores of the British Islands’ 
So late as he lOtli of June in 1809 a large flock of these birds in the finest breeding-plum.^ ™fseen 
n .0 sands of the Dornoch Firth, half a mile or so inside the bar; these or others were also observed 
on two occasions during the following week near the same spot. In July and Aiio-ust I Invp r i 
small parties of birds in .apparently an intermediate stage of plumage; these might^,ossibl; av een 
non-breeders or those weakened by wounds or other causes, and not possessing sufflefent strength t mak a 
r-turbir :teixri:: o^r fr f 
unsuspicious of danZ^TfoZ^rfew / ‘^’‘‘d'^l exceedingly 
they c'ould have escaped ttL “ unlikely tlmt 
Sco.lIl‘d.f:dtrZtlm stnT:eZbo“df“ T^V'T ““ ““ 
the Tain Sands of the Drnoc^ I'M T ie 7 smaller Waders were met with in swarms on 
latter might be procured I fire) ’ l ,“''’1' "'y ''“'’“‘8 requested that some of the 
whichpro^edto be corpo'sed enttiro? °f 
charges, and the whole bein<> secured the <,hillnw i -I ^ two 
of escape for the wounded °0n tl e ’hr v n i l '™ “ ohauoe 
immatZ and adults in autZn plum 7 -<> “ue. I remarked that both 
west in numberless flocks for several houm ZrtoZreTay'^^j® f off Shoreham. flying 
- same eonr.se. In the pale grey and white'dress 0 ^ 111 . 0 : t IZZriZ: mZ 
