. An illustrated manual of British birds . itifolia, while thestomach of one killed at Discovery Bay contained two caterpillarsof Dasychera groenlandica, one bee, and pieces of an Alga ; inthis country small bivalves are freely eaten. The Knot is remark-ably gregarious, and the young are very unsuspicious on theirarrival; no wader strikes the lighthouses more frequently. The adult in breeding-dress (in the foreground) has the crownand neck reddish-brown with darker streaks; feathers of the mantleblackish, spotted with chestnut and margined with white ; tail-covertswhite barred with black; chee
. An illustrated manual of British birds . itifolia, while thestomach of one killed at Discovery Bay contained two caterpillarsof Dasychera groenlandica, one bee, and pieces of an Alga ; inthis country small bivalves are freely eaten. The Knot is remark-ably gregarious, and the young are very unsuspicious on theirarrival; no wader strikes the lighthouses more frequently. The adult in breeding-dress (in the foreground) has the crownand neck reddish-brown with darker streaks; feathers of the mantleblackish, spotted with chestnut and margined with white ; tail-covertswhite barred with black; cheeks, throat and breast chestnut; flanks,vent and under tail-coverts whitish, mottled with black. Length10 in. ; wing 65 in. In winter the upper parts are ash-grey, andthe under parts are white with grey flecks. In the young bird thefeathers of the mantle have crescentic ash-coloured bars and dullwhite tips, the under parts having a buffish tinge; the legs and feetare dull olive. Mr. F. Bond has an albino shot near Maldon. ^. 583. THE SANDERLING. Calidris arenaria (Linnreus). This species—easily recognizable by the absence of a hind-toe—usually arrives on the coasts of the United Kingdom by the middleof August, and, contrary to the rule among waders, the earlyflocks frequently consist of old as well as young birds. Through-out the autumn it is plentiful on the sandy portions of our shores,though less numerous on the mud-flats, and it occasionally visitslarge expanses of water inland ; comparatively few, however, remainon any part of our coasts throughout the entire winter. By Aprilthe return passage—in smaller numbers—commences; birds in lullbreeding-dress being observed through May and even in June. To the Faeroes the Sanderling is a somewhat rare migrant, butit undoubtedly nests in some districts of Iceland ; and ten eggswere obtained by the German expedition on Sabine Island, EastGreenland, while on the west side nestlings have been capturednear Godthaab, an
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