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Lt.-Col. W. Tweedie,



Green Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Greenshank ...

Black-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit

Raffs and Reeves

Brown Snipe...


Curlew Sandpiper

Knot


Little Stint ...

Temminck’s Stint

Schintz Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Dunlin


Purple Sandpiper

Grey Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope ...

Stilt


Grey Plover ...


Ringed Plover

Kildeer Plover

Little Ringed Plover ...



Totanus ochropus.


,, glareola.


,, hypoleucus.


,, glottis.


Timosa melanura.


,, rufa.


Machetus pugnax.


Macrorctmphus griseus.


Tringa subarquata.


,, canutus.


,, mmuta.


,, temminckii.


,, schintzii.


,, rufescens.


,, pectoralis.


,, variabilis.


,, maritima.


Phalciropus lobatus.


,, hyperboreus.


Himantopus melanopterus.


Squatarola cinerea.


Gharadrius hiaticula.


,, vociferus.


,, curonica.



BIRDS IN FLANDERS DURING THE


WAR.


By Lt.-Col. W. Tweedie.


I send a few notes, very uninteresting I fear, about the bird-

life here.


We have been for some time in the same spot in Flanders,

and have seen the autumn pass and the winter take its place. We

are within very easy shell range of the Bosch lines, and never a day

passes without shells of all descriptions flying backwards and for¬

wards. In spite of this, there is quite a fair show of bird-life in the



