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while in the autumn of that year two or three young birds 

 occurred on the river, which it was beheved were bred on a 

 swampy piece of ground where Redshanks and Snipe annually 

 nested. 



GREEN SANDPIPER. 

 Totanus ochropus (^.)- 



Bird of passage, and occasional winter resident. 



In Yorkshire the earliest allusion to this bird, of which 

 I am aware, is in Fothergill's Richmondshire list (1823), 

 where it is enumerated amongst the birds of that district. 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : — 



Totanus ochropus. — Green Sandpiper — F. O. Morris reports it as 

 not uncommon ; it is scarce at Hebden Bridge ; is occasionally 

 obtained in the neighbourhood of York ; one was shot at Low Moor 

 in 1830; Dr. Farrar has obtained but two specimens; one in 1835, 

 from the Worsborough Reservoir ; it was associated with the Common 

 Sandpiper, and was only detected after being shot ; the other was a 

 solitary one from the Barnsley canal bank, and shot in July 1835 ; 

 rare near Leeds ; one shot at Temple Thorp, October 28th 1839 ; 

 another at Birstal, in 1840 ; rare near Huddersfield ; occasionally 

 found at the streams or lakes about Bridlington, but not known to 

 breed there. 



The faunistic status of the Green Sandpiper may be defined 

 as that of a bird of passage, very local in its distribution, 

 sometimes arriving as early as July, a few remaining in 

 some localities over winter and departing again in spring. 



In the Holderness district it is more or less frequent on 

 the shallow drains from the beginning of August to the follow- 

 ing spring, being most numerous in early autumn, and 

 becoming scarcer as winter approaches, though individuals 

 have been observed throughout winter, even in severe frosts, 

 on the quick-flowing streams of the East Riding Carrs, and 

 it is probable that there is a late migration. 



The Green Sandpiper is continually observed in winter 

 in the neighbourhood of Scampston, and it is also fairly 



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