. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 60s. THE COMMON SANDPIPER. TdTANUs HYPOL^ueus (Linnffius). This species, often called the Summer-Snipe, is a regular visitor to the British Islands, usually appearing in April and leaving again by the end of September, though a few birds occasionally remain till November. Inasmuch as its favourite haunts are the gravelly margins of lakes or islets of shingle in running water, this Sandpiper is chiefly a migrant in the south-east of England ; but exceptionally it has nested in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Sussex, and
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 60s. THE COMMON SANDPIPER. TdTANUs HYPOL^ueus (Linnffius). This species, often called the Summer-Snipe, is a regular visitor to the British Islands, usually appearing in April and leaving again by the end of September, though a few birds occasionally remain till November. Inasmuch as its favourite haunts are the gravelly margins of lakes or islets of shingle in running water, this Sandpiper is chiefly a migrant in the south-east of England ; but exceptionally it has nested in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Sussex, and Dorset, and more freely along the moorland brooks of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. In Wales, and in fact west of the Severn and north of the Trent, it is a well-known breeding-bird; while in Scotland it is to be found on almost every loch and burn throughout the mainland, ranging to the Outer Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands. It is generally distributed in Ireland, except in the south-east. In summer this Sandpiper is plentiful from the Arctic circle down to the Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, and the mountains of Turkey and Greece, while it visits Madeira, and breeds—sparingly—in the Canaries, Spain, and the Mediterranean basin. In the last, how- ever, the species is better known in winter, at which season it ascends the; Nile valley to Abyssinia, and can be traced along the entire coast-line of Africa, as well as to Madagascar &c. In Asia, where it is found from the Arctic circle southwards, it crosses the great. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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