Sanderling. 
SANDERLING {Tringa arenaria, Illiger.) 
Charadrius calidris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 255. 9.—~Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 689. — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. p. 741. 4 Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. p. 68. — Tringa arenaria, Linn. Syst. 
1. p. 251. 16. — Raii, Syn. p. 109. A. 11. — Will. p. 125. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 680. 
Arenaria Calidris, Merger, Orn. 2. p. 326. — Calidris grisea minor, Briss. 5. p. 236. 
17. t. 20. f. 2. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 272. — Calidris grisea, Briss. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 
688. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. p. 129. — Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. p. 480. — Temm. Man, 
d’Orn. 2. p. 522. — Le Sanderling, Bujf. Ois. 7. p. 532. — Sanderling, or Cur- 
willet, Br. Zool. 2. No. 212. t. 73 Ib. fol. 129.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 403.— 
Will. (Angl.) p. 303 Albin, 2. t. 74. — Lewins Br. Birds, 5. t. 183. — Lath. 
Syn. 5. p. 197. — Supp. p. 253. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 160 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 
16> — Bewick’s Br. Birds, l.p. 375.— F/m. Br. Anim. p. 112 — Linn. Trans. 8. 
p. 268. 
A small species ; weight about two ounces ; length eight inches ; 
bill black, one inch in length ; irides dusky ; fore part of the head and 
sides beneath the eyes, as well as the whole under parts from chin to 
vent, white ; crown of the head, back of the neck, and scapulars, grey, 
with slight dusky streaks down the shafts of each feather ; wing coverts 
the same colour, but nearly plain ; greater quills dusky ; secondaries 
grey, tipped with white ; tail grey, the exterior feathers lightest ; legs 
black. This is the general winter plumage. 
Of some specimens in our collection, which were killed on the coast 
of Cornwall in the latter end of July and in August, one has the head, 
neck, and sides of the breast, streaked with black, and tinged with 
ferruginous ; back and scapulars marked with large spots of black, and 
