BRITISH BIRDS. 
• SANDERLING. 
TOWILLEE, OR CURWILLET. 
{Charadrlus CaUdris, Lin. — Mauheche, BufF.) 
This bird weighs almoft two ounces ; is about 
eight inches in length, and fifteen in breadth, from 
tip to tip. The bill is an inch long, flender, black 
and grooved on the fides nearly from the tip to 
the noftril ; the brow to the eyes white ; the 
reft of the head pale alh-colour, mottled in brown 
ftreaks from the forehead to the hinder part of the 
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