626 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



it was reported that one was exposed for sale in Leeds 

 market in January 1877. These, however, are not the earliest 

 records, for Thomas AUis, in his Report written in 1844, 

 stated that he had one specimen in winter plumage, from 

 near York, in February, and had seen one or two others in 

 the same plumage taken about the same time. 



In autumn this species frequently associates with other 

 shore birds ; I saw one in August 1888 flying in company with 

 a flock of Sanderlings, and have known it consort with Knots, 

 Golden Plover, Redshank, and even Teal. 



COMMON SANDPIPER. 



Totanus hypoleucus {L.). 



Summer visitant, local, breeds more or less abundantly in the west, 

 north-west, and north-east of the county. Arrives in mid-April, 

 departs in August or September. 



Perhaps the first mention of this as a Yorkshire bird 

 occurs in Hill's " History of Animals " (1752, pp. 475-6), 

 thus : — 



" The Lesser Tringa .... The Grey Tringa, spotted 



with black, with a smooth beak, and a white belly 



Aldrovand calls it Gallinida hypoleucos ; Willughby and Ray 

 Tringa minor ; . . . . and our people in Yorkshire and 

 some other places, the Sandpiper." 



Thomas AUis, in 1844, wrote : — 



Totanus hypoleucus. — Common Sandpiper — Not so frequent as 

 formerly in the neighbourhood of Sheffield ; rare at Hebden Bridge ; 

 F. O. Morris reports it as common ; it breeds sparingly about Halifax ; 

 Dr. Farrar says this species is not uncommon near Barnsley on the 

 edges of fresh water during the summer months, where they nidify, 

 and very much ornament the scene by their notes and activity ; not 

 uncommon near Leeds ; common near Huddersfield ; used to breed 

 near the King's Mills and Dalton Lees ; becoming more scarce as 

 population increases ; it is met with near Bridlington in the same 

 localities as ochropus. 



