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SANDERLING. 
CTTBWILLET. TOWILLT. 
Arenaria calidris, 
“ vulgaris, 
Calidris arenaria , 
Charadrius calidris , 
“ rubidus. 
Gould. 
Stephens. 
Temminck. Jenyns. 
Pennant. 
Gmelin. 
Arenaria. Arena — Sand- — sea-shore. Calidris — 
This is a bird of very pleasing appearance, and tolerably 
well known on most of the sandy shores of Great Britain 
and Ireland, as well as at times met with by the side of 
inland waters. 
It appears in Iceland, Greenland, Siberia, Sweden, Denmark, 
Norway, and other parts of the north of our continent, as 
well as in. the south, in France, Germany, Italy, and Holland; 
also in Labrador, and other arctic regions of America, and in 
the North Georgian Islands. It goes, on the other hand, as 
far south as Mexico and the Brazils, and is met with likewise 
in northern Africa, and in Asia on the shores of the Black 
Sea, and the lakes and rivers of Persia, and in Japan, it is 
said, and in Sunda and New Guinea. 
The Sanderling is not very unfrequent on the English 
shores, throughout the island; seventeen were shot in one 
day, October 12th., 1846, in some stormy weather, in the 
neighbourhood of Brighton, but not one specimen, says Mr. 
Thomas Thorncroft, writing to me on the 29th. of May, 
1850, has occurred there since. In Yorkshire they have been 
met at the mouth of the Tees; also near Burlington, and 
along the coast, generally in the autumn. In Cornwall, 
near Falmouth, they are uncommon. In Norfolk they occur. 
