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there is scarcely a month between March and December 

 but what a Green Sandpiper may be seen in the large 

 open woods or marshes. 



In 1865 Mr. AV. H. Power writes that the Green 

 Sandpiper "appeared on its migration southwards on 

 July 17, at Eainham. They soon became tolerably 

 common, but are very war}^ generally stationing them- 

 selves at a bend of a stream or sheet of water, and 

 whisking round a corner when flushed. They often 

 remind one forcibly of a Snipe — the cry uttered almost 

 immediately on taking wing, their subsequent rising high 

 in the air and flying to a great distance, sometimes 

 returning again near to the spot from which they were 

 flushed ; in fact, I fancy that the Green Sandpiper is 

 sometimes mistaken for a Snipe by rustics, and may 

 perhaps account for the tales one hears of Snipe being 

 seen at Midsummer. I saw a Green Sandpiper as late 

 as October 13." 



In 1868 INIr. F. D. Power, in his notes on the birds 

 at Eainham, says the Green Sandpiper is " very scarce 

 this year — a striking contrast to their great abundance 

 here in 1867. This scarcity is to be attributed to the 

 drying up of the ditches during the summer. I sav/ 

 only tw^o specimens throughout September." 



There are specimens in the Canterbury Museum from 

 the Isle of Thanet, obtained in April and May, 1887, and 

 August, 1888, by Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond; he also 

 shot it on September 7, 1897. Dr. E. B. Sharpe obtained 

 it in Eomney Marsh in September. A male in the 

 Maidstone Museum, obtained at Linton, April 28, 1888, 

 by Mr. H. Kennard ; and a male obtained at Leeds, 

 Kent, December 14, 1883, by Mr. M. W. Martin. 



