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Common Sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucus). 



On© of our most welcome summer visitants, a bird beloved 

 of anglers, helping to enhance the attractions of many a lonely 

 stream side with its lively flittings and long trilling notes. It 

 is found everywhere along the larger water-courses, and wherever 

 the lochs and lochans have gravelly or stoney margins it will be 

 found there also. The eggs, to my eyes, are always very 

 handsome looking, while the nest, though not really difficult to 

 locate, is a test for most people's skill. In early autumn it 

 goes down to the shore, remaining there a week or two before 

 finally departing. 



Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus). 



This bird has not been noted of late years, the last I heard of 

 having been on 6th January, 1885, when one was shot at 

 Kiikland, Kirkmichael. 



The specimens alluded to by Yarrell as shot in Dumfriesshire 

 were, according to Jardine, killed in spring at the mouth of a 

 small tributary of the Annan, where they remained some days, 

 notice having been sent to Mr Murray of their being there, as a 

 bird not known. They had also been seen near the same spot 

 in previous years. Once or twice the Green Sandpiper has been 

 seen near Jardine Hall in winter, stationary for some weeks, 

 frequenting the banks of the Annan where it was soft or some 

 large ditches. One was shot in January, 1836, which had 

 remained for some time, and was frequently seen in some ditches 

 sheltered all round with wood. When disturbed, it would not 

 continue flitting along the ditch, but would at once rise over 

 the trees and leave for the time, its return being often intimated 

 by its shrill whistle when passing in before alighting. Smellie 

 Watson shot a specimen near Castle Douglas in 1840. There 

 is another record of one shot at Barnhill, Terregles, about 1862. 



Redshank (Totanus calidris). 

 Of this abundant resident, Gray and Anderson said — " Is 

 nowhere more abundant than in the Bay of Luce, from Port- 

 William to the Drumore coast. Its summer haunts are numerous 

 throughout the district, and present a variety of scenery from 

 the low-lying marshes of the south of Wigtown to the chain of 



