THE SANDERLINGS. 
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BeSfof Se “ Pokt‘5.”“'M?HoIaid\^^ from «l'OS® 
b'vri?rKt.r''wS« 
and following up its circum-polar distribution, it has een o 
“ Jic Slot islands, Taimy, Ponlnsnla. ■» 
on Waigats and Novaya Zemlya, and it probab y 
the mouth of the Petchora. -j „uic, 
TT —When seen at large, the Sanderling bears considerable 
i-eseS^ce t^re Uunhnfbd might be taken for that bird 
bv anyone who is unaccustomed to its appeaiance and Wsi} . 
Thr«enerrily whiter look of the Sanderhng, however, w.l 
distinguish it,^as a rule ; its pure white breast giving it a hghte 
?nnpa?ance than the Dunlins, with which it often ^associates. It 
is^ also' found in flocks of considerable size, consisting entirely 
of its oil? species, and isokated individuals are also often een 
running abob on the margins of the pools left m sand y 
recediiKT tide. I'hc species is, indeed, very often to be 
'r Ver; w™, o^n.. 
Land was discovered by him on the 24th of June, at a heig 
□rsevlral hundred feet above the sea; it was situated on a 
1 -.Arrp. nnd was merely a. depression in the centre of a 
^'^rmnbenr plant of Arctic Willow, and was lined by a few dead 
f r and ?aSins. The nest found by Mr. MacFarlane, imar 
the Anderson River in Arctic America, was lined with a little 
in nu^^^^ Colonel Feilden’s specimen in the 
BrS Museum is of a pale oliye-brown ground-colour, with 
faint spots and mottlings of brown, with violet-grey undeilymg 
foots very indistinct. All the spots and mottlings are very 
slightly indicated. Axis, i’4 inch; diam. i o. 
