Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 1 [June 1901]

by Various

Such joy is their devotion.

—Isabel Goodhue.

SANDERLING.
(Calidris arenaria).
⅔ Life-size.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES.

THE SANDERLING.
(Calidris arenaria.)

By the beach border, where the breeze

Comes freighted from the briny seas,

By sandy bar and weedy rock

I frequent meet thy roving flock;

Now hovering o’er the bending sedge,