THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
species. I have as yet only seen it in the adult dress, but no doubt it is 
subject to the same variety in its progress to that state as ours is known to 
be. The English caU it at Port Jackson^ Sea or Shore Lark, from its being 
met with in that situation ; but it is known to the natives by the name of 
Waddergal. It is certain, however, that the Ringed Plover is found there like- 
wise ; hence it is probable, that both these birds are known indiscriminately 
by the name of Sea Larks P 
This introduction of the Sanderling to the Australian Avifaima was due 
to the examination by Latham of the Watling Drawings, as No. 247 is marked 
by Latham “ Sanderhng Lath., Gen. Syn. Suppl. II., p. 315.” In the Hist. 
Coll. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 148, Sharpe identified this drawing as that of 
the Sanderling, quoting Watling’s note showing the source of Latham’s 
information. 
The drawing has nothing much in common with a Sanderling, but is easily 
recognised as referable to either P. geoffroyi or C. mongolus. The drawing is 
not exact enough to definitely decide which of these two, as it is of a bird in 
winter-plumage, but the length of the bill suggests the latter. The note 
about the “ Ringed Plover ” refers to the Watling Drawings Nos. 249 and 250, 
wrongly identified by Sharpe (Zoc. cit.) as Erythrogonys cinctus, but which are 
very good figures of C. ynelanops VieiUot, as I have pointed out under the first 
named {ante, p. 36). 
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