414 THE BIRDS OF KE^;T 



111 1889 Mr. G. Dowker records the appearance of 

 the Spotted Redshanks, which he says was shot " by my 

 son, on September 9 (1889), by the Eiver Stour. It is 

 a fresh addition to my Hst of East Kent birds." 



Mr. W. Prentis, writing in 1894, states that " on one 

 afternoon I met a pair in the front of a snowstorm in 

 mid-winter at Kainlaam." 



Mr. J. B. Nichols states that "on May 29, 1905, a fine 

 pair of Dusky Redshanks {Totanus fuscus), in summer 

 plumage, were shot at Jury's Gap, Lydd, Kent." 



GREEN SHANK. 



Totanus canescens (Ginelin). 8.N., i., p. 6G8 

 (1788). 



An occasional spring and autumn visitor an^ at no 

 time numerous. It visits the large outlying sands and 

 mud-flats on the coast and estuaries of Kent, associating 

 with the God wits, for which it is often mistaken. 



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

 Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, states that 

 it is "not common. A good specimen was shot last year 

 (1843) at Milton, by the keeper to Matthew Bell, Esq., 

 of Oswalds." Morris says one was obtained at Swans- 

 combe, in Kent, in 1848, by R. O. White, Esq. 



Writing in 1868, Mr. F. D. Power, in his notes at 

 Rainham, says the " Greenshanks appear to have been 

 more abundant than usual on the marshes at the mouth 

 of the Medway. I have heard of several being killed 

 during September, and we received one in the flesh 

 which had been shot on the IGth of that month." 



