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often seen on the Exe, and D'Urban and Mathew 

 in their "Birds of Devon" (pp. 312-313) give 

 numerous instances of its appearance in that county. 

 It has occurred several times in Cornw^all (Rodd), 

 and Mr. Mansel Pleydell has noted its appearance 

 at Poole, in Dorsetshire. So recently as the 30th 

 August 1897, a pair of Avocets were shot on 

 migration so near London as Kingsbury Reservoir, 

 and were sent for preservation to Mr. Cooper of 

 Radnor Street, St. Luke's, v^here I had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing them. For remarks on the nesting 

 of the Avocet and its former breeding haunts in 

 England, see pp. 246-247 of a paper by the present 

 writer on the genus Recurvirostra, Ibis, 1874. 



GREENSHANK. Totanus canescens (Gmelin). PI. 20, 

 fig. 5. Length, 12 in. ; bill, 2 in. ; wing, 7 in. ; tarsus, 

 2-25 in. 



A spring and autumn migrant, nesting regularly 

 in some parts of Scotland, where the Gaelic name 

 for it is Teoch-vingh, from its cry. As to its dis- 

 tribution in the nesting season, see A. G. More, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 436; Gray, "Birds of the West of 

 Scotland," p. 301, and Harvie-Brown (Zool, 1868, 

 p. 1308), who in that year procured two nests, each 

 containing four eggs, in Sutherlandshire. It breeds 

 also in Caithness, as well as in Ross-shire, Inver- 

 ness, Perthshire, and Argyllshire. See Buckley and 

 Harvie-Brown, "Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland 

 and Caithness " (p. 223), and " Fauna of the Moray 

 Basin," vol. ii. p. 201. 



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