232 REDSHANK. SPOTTED REDSHANK. GREENSHANK. 



The Green Sandpiper is a shy watchful bird, and is generally 

 found either alone, or in pairs. It bores a good deal for its food, 

 which consists chiefly of small beetles, spiders, very small red 

 worms, wood-lice, and small fresh-water snails, with a little 

 vegetable matter. Its flight is rapid and glancing, and its note 

 a remarkably shrill whistle. 



Genus— TOTANUS. 



[ToTANUS GLAREOLA — Wood-Saudpipcr. ] 



A rare straggler, during migration, to Britain. 



TOTANUS CALIDRIS— Redshank. 



The Red-leg, or Redshank Sandpiper is a very rare visitor to 

 Herefordshire. The only specimen recorded is one solitary 

 wanderer, which during the spring migration northwards was shot 

 on the banks of the Wye at Ruckhall, in 1830, and is now in the 

 Hereford Museum. 



TOTANUS FUSCUS— Spotted Redshank. 



The Spotted Redshank, or Dusky Sandpiper is also a very 

 rare visitor to the county. One stray migrant is reported by Mr. 

 E. Pilley, to have been shot at Monkland, near Leominster, in 1881. 



TOTANUS CANESCENS— Greenshank. 



This bird has been occasionally met with in Herefordshire 

 during the last few years : at Castleton, in 1879 ; at Aymestry 

 in March, 1880; at Caplar in March, 1880; and at Letton in 



