SANDPIPER 407 



Genus TRINGOIDES, Bonaparte. 



SANDPIPEE. 



Tringoicles liijpoleucus (Linnaeus). ^SiV., i., p. 250 



(1766). 



Summer Snipe. 



This Sandpiper is certainly not plentiful in Kent at any 

 time. A solitary bird or at most a pair may be seen 

 on the banks of the rivers and coast, but as a rule on 

 fresh-water streams. 



Boys includes it in his Birds of Sandwich, 1792. The 

 liev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1844, says it is " common 

 in spring and autumn." In Mr. AV. H. Power's Birds 

 Observed at Rainliam, 1865, he says: "It is a curious 

 fact that very few common Sandpipers, and few, if 

 any. Green Sandpipers, visit Rainham on their spring 

 migration northwards, although both species become 

 tolerably abundant in the autumn. I noticed the first 

 this season (1865) on July 7, and the last on October 13, 

 the latter being in company with a Green Sandpiper. 

 This is later than I ever remember to have seen one, 

 although last year (1864) I observed one as late as the 

 12th of the same month." 



There is a pair in the British Museum, obtained in 

 July and September, in Eomney Marsh, by Dr. E. B. 

 Sharpe. Mr. E. J. Balston generally met with it on the 

 Medway in summer. 



In Captain Boyd Alexander's notes from Eomney 

 Marsh, in 1896, he writes: "On May 30 two pairs of 

 Common Sandpipers came to one of the dykes, but dis- 

 appeared a few days later. I have searched in vain for 



