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to have been nesting, and August 6. 1869, July 14 and 

 October 6. 1870, April 21 and July 12. 1872, July 27 

 and August 10. 1873, August 1 and December 8. 1874, 

 April 26, August 28, October 26. 1876, August 1 and 

 November 24. 1877, August 10. 1878, November 9. 

 Latest stay in spring. May 25 ; earliest return, July 12. 



For a more detailed account of its habits see 

 "The Birds of Middlesex" (pp. 172-177). 



The Green Sandpiper is reported to have nested 

 in Yorkshire, Mr. Roberts, of the Museum at Scar- 

 borough, having received specimens several times 

 from the neighbourhood of Hunmanby, in all cases 

 shot in June. The keeper there said they breed 

 in old crows' nests ; he had seen them come off from 

 the nests (Stevenson's " Birds of Norfolk," vol. ii. 

 p. 226, note). This is quite in accordance with 

 what has been observed of this species in Sweden ; 

 and it is now a well-known fact that, instead of 

 nesting on the ground like other Sandpipers, it 

 makes use of the deserted nest of some other bird, 

 and frequently lays its eggs at a considerable height 

 from the ground. An excellent account of the 

 nidification of this bird, by Professor Newton, will 

 be found in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 for 1863, pp. 529-532 (reprinted in The Zoologist 

 for 1864, pp. 9115-9118, and in the Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., xiv. pp. 221-224). 



The Green Sandpiper is reported to have bred 

 on the Gartmore estate, near Aberfoyl, Perthshire. 

 A very circumstantial account of his observation of 

 the bird has been published by Mr. Samuel Yuille, 



