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Sept. 12th. Devon, a few. 

 ,, 14th. Devon, two. 

 „ 15th. Suffolk, one passing. 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER (totanus oehropw). 



A Green Sandpiper was reported at Morton Loch (Fife) on the 2^th 

 of June. During the last ten days of July stragglers were observed in 

 Cheshire. In August passing migrants were noted at Morton Loch on 

 the 1st, 5th, 20th and 22nd, in Oxfordshire on the 3rd, at the Pentland 

 Skerries on the 5th and 8th, and at Soulseat Loch (Wigtown) on the 5th. 

 At Holderness (Yorkshire) thirteen were recorded on the 6th, and 

 between that date and the lGth Green Sandpipers were observed on five 

 oc'asions at Largo Day (Fife). 



Single passing birds were seen on the Scilly Isles on the 13th and 14th 

 of August, in Suffolk on the 18th, 24th, 29th and several on the 31st. 

 Iu Cheshire two were noted on the loth and 31st and one on the 24th, 

 at Fair Isle (Shetland) seventy passing birds were observed between the 

 1st and 26th and of these about twenty occurred on the 5th. At 

 Auskerry Light (Orkney) several were killed on the night of the loth. 



In September stragglers, mostly single birds, were recorded in Lan- 

 cashire on the 4th, 5th, 7th and 10th, at Spurn Head (Yorkshire) on the 

 6th, in Suffolk on the 6th and 21st and in Cheshire on the 22nd. 



In October two arrived iu Suffolk on the 8th and one on the 11th. 



One was shot on the Cromarty Firth on the 1st of November. 



In December one was observed in Cheshire on the 7th, four on the 

 29th and one in Shropshire on the 28th. 



THE REDSHANK {Totanus calidris). 



June 10th. Breydou (Norfolk), a good many. 



„ 25th. Breydon, scores of old and young. 

 July 1st. Pentland Skerries, passing 



„ 7th. Isle of Man, about forty arrived on the coast from the 



south-west. 



„ 8th. Breydon, very many. 



,, 19th. Breydon, hundreds. 

 Aug. 1st. Sussex coast, about forty arrived. 



„ 2nd. Northumberland, one to south ; Sussex coast, increase. 



„ 9th. Sussex coast, further increase. 



„ 18th to 29th. Lancashire, numbers varying from twenty to fifty. 



„ 20th/21st. Seven Stones Lt.-v. (Cornwall), twenty-four. 



„ 24th. Breydon, a good many. 



„ 27th. Devon, number-. 



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