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ham Tarn Moss. In 1886 several pairs nested in a 

 marshy field near Harrogate, to which they returned 

 on April 10, 1887. A few breed in the Winster Valley, 

 Lancashire, and on Walney Island ; also in Cumber- 

 land ; and in Northamptonshire on Lord Lilford's 

 ground near Oundle {ZooL, 1896, p. 53). 



In Scotland and Ireland the Redshank breeds in 

 several counties, and is common on the coast in 

 autumn and winter. Weight 6 oz. 



GREEN SANDPIPER. Totanus ochropus (Linnseus). 

 PI. 20, fig. 8. Length, 9-5 in. ; bill, 1*2 in. ; wing, 5-5 

 in.; tarsus, 1*25 in.; bare part of tibia, 07 in. 



A spring and autumn migrant ; a few sometimes 

 remain the winter. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, 

 author of the " Fauna of Norfolk," in a letter to 

 Yarrell dated Sept. 14, 1840, wrote: "I am nearly 

 certain that they remain here all the year, with the 

 exception of that period in spring and early summer 

 in which they withdraw to hatch and rear their 

 young. I have shot them in extremity of frost, 

 and have seen one here and there during the 

 snipe-shooting in March, but the 11th of April is 

 the latest time in spring in which I observed them." 

 In Middlesex I have seen and shot Green Sand- 

 pipers much later in spring and earlier in autumn 

 than noted by Lubbock in Norfolk. Looking 

 through my notebooks, I find the following entries 

 of meeting with this bird at Kingsbury Reservoir : — 



1864, April 24, 29, July 20, August 6. 1865, May 25. 

 1868, June 25, a most unusual date, when the bird ought 



