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May 11th. INIenai Straits (Anglesey), 2 seen. 



„ 12th to 20th. Pentland Skerries (Orkney), seen iu varying numben 

 daily. 



THE SANDER LING {Calidris arenaria). 



Jan. 12th/13lh. Lemau and Ower Lt.-v. (Norfolk), 40. 

 Marston (Bedfordj, one shot. 

 Dungeness (Kent), 40, just arrived. 

 Dungeness (increase). 

 Rye Harbour (Sussex), an arrival. 

 Marbury Mere (Cheshire), one passing. 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER {Totanus ochropm). 



Green Sandpipers were reported singly or in pairs from several localities 

 in Cheshire between the 20th and 27th of January, on the 10th of March 

 and the 3rd of April. One was seen on the Trent (StafTordshire) on 

 various days during January and up to the 6th of February. Single 

 birds were recorded from Romney Marsh (Keut) on the 11th and 26th 

 of April, from Norton Fitzwarrt^n (Somersetshire) on the 12th, and from 

 Wells (Somersetshire) on many days between the 20th of April and tlie 

 19th of May. 



THE REDSHANK (Totanus calidris). 



Redshanks began to disappear rapidly from the coast in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Sussex and the Hampshire border during January, and by 

 the 31st their numbers were hardly five per cent, of what they had been 

 in the first half of the winter. A slight increase took place during the 

 cold weather ending February 6th, and a further slight increase took 

 place on the 9th. 



The winter-residents in the neighbourhood of Plymouth left during 

 the last week in March ; they had all deserted Cornwall by the 31st and 

 the Devon coast by the 2nd of April. 



Redshanks had returned as summer-residents to Stafibrdshire on the 

 12th of March, to the Sussex marshes by the 14th, to Warwickshire by 

 the 17th and to Suffolk by the 29th. They were seen flying N. in 

 Somerset on the 2oth, and were passing in Cheshire on the 29th and 

 30th. A pair were seen near Clifton (Derbyshire), a new locality, on 

 the 7tli of April, one was passing W. in Hertfordshire on the 18th, and 

 two arrived and remained a day at the Pentland Skerries (Orkney) oii 

 the 8th of Ma3\ The Redshanks breeding in localities in Stafford- 

 shire and Northumberland were reported as being more than usuallv 

 numerous. 



