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One seen in the marshes between Eastbourne and Polegate, 



May 6, 1880 : Clark Kennedy, Zool, 1880, p. 300 ; and 



Borrer, " Birds of Sussex," p. 217. 

 Three seen, Rye, Sussex, Sept. 3, 1883 ; Parkin, Zool., 1883, 



p. 495. 

 One, Castleacre, Swaft'ham, Oct. 12, 1895 : Hudson, Field, 



Nov. 9, 1895 ; and Zool, 1895, p. 434. 

 One, Sedgemoor, July 189G : Lewis, Zool., 1897, p. 511. 



Ohs. A bird recorded as the Black-winged Stilt, 

 shot at Stanningfield, near Bury St. Edmunds, in 

 May 1871 {Zool, 1871, p. 2684), proved to be the 

 Dusky Redshank, Totanus fuscus (Zool., 1872, p. 

 3064). Another reported to have been shot on the 

 Trent near Nottingham {Zool., 1889, p. 387) proved 

 to be a foreira skin sold with fraudulent intent 

 {Zool, 1890, p. 25). 



For a note on the food of tlie Stilt and Avocet, 

 see Zool, 1881, p. 411, and for an account of the 

 former as observed in its breeding haunts in the 

 Eastern Atlas by the late Osbert Salvin, see Ibis, 

 1859, p. 360. 



YELLOWSHANK. Totanus flavipes (Gmelin). Length, 

 10*75 in. ; bill, 1-4 in. ; wing, 6-5 in. ; tarsus, 2 in. 



Hah. North and South America ; accidental in Europe. 



One, Misson, Nottinghamshire, winter 1854-55 : Yarrell, 

 " Hist. Brit. Birds," 3rd ed. vol. ii. p. 637 ; Sterland and 

 Whitaker's " Birds of Nottinghamshire," p. 43. 



One near Tadcaster, Oct. 1858 : Sir W. Milner, Zool, 1858, 

 p. 5958; Graham, mit., 1858, p. 291 (doubtful). 



One, Marazion, Cornwall, Sept. 12, 1871 : Rodd, Zool, 

 1871, p. 2807, " Birds of Cornwall," p. 93. 



