The Sanderling 
Nesting. — Does not breed in California. Nest: A depression in ground, 
scantily lined with dried leaves and grasses. Eggs: 4; pointed ovate, dark olive-buff 
with a greenish cast, very uniform, marked finely, sparingly, and rather obscurely 
with bister. Av. size 35.8 x 23.1 (1.41 x .91); index 64.7. Season: Last week in June; 
one brood. 
General Range. —Appears on nearly all shores, except those of the Australian 
sub-region. Breeds in high Arctic latitudes, and winters south from California and 
Virginia to Patagonia, and from the Mediterranean and Japan to Burma, Cape of 
Good Hope, etc. 
Occurrence in California. —Common spring and fall migrant coastwise. 
Winters rather sparingly, but especially in the San Diegan district and on the islands. 
Authorities.—Heermann (Tringa arenaria), Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. x., 
1859, p. 65; Dwight , Auk, vol. xvii., 1900, pp. 374, 379 (molt); Manniche, Terrestrial 
Mam. and Birds n. e. Greenland, 1910, p. 139 (breeding habits; nest and eggs, etc.); 
Howell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 12, 1917, p. 47 (s. Calif, ids.). 
YOUR SANDERLING is the model Shore-bird. Simple in form, 
modest in color, regular in habit, and cosmopolitan in range, he stands 
forth as a sort of epitome, or generalized type, of the order Limicolce. It 
is not alone because he lacks those eccentricities of dress or behavior which 
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