220 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
their efforts to discover the nest of the green sandpiper, 
I will now give, from our local authorities, a few of the 
instances in which this species has been supposed to 
have remained with us for breeding purposes. Chief 
amongst these is the well known communication 
from Mr. Lubbock to Yarrell, also recorded in the 
“ Fauna of Norfolk” that he had been informed by Sir 
Thomas Beevor “that one of these sandpipers built in 
a hollow on the side of a clay pit upon his estate, in 
the autumn of 1839, and hatched four young, which, 
to his vexation, were taken by a shepherd’s boy. They 
are common during summer and autumn upon a small 
stream which runs through his property near Attle- 
borough.” At that time, of course, the clay-pit was 
looked upon as a not unlikely locality for the nest of 
through which ran a clear trout stream, at Cocking, near Mid- 
hurst,” invariably betook themselves “into the great woods in the 
immediate neighbourhood” when disturbed at the pond, and sus- 
pecting that they might after all be examples of the wood sand- 
piper (Totanus glareola), one was shot in the following July, but 
proved to be ZT. ochropus. The probability, also, of this sandpiper 
occasionally breeding in North Lincolnshire has been recently 
mooted by Mr. Cordeaux, of Great Cotes, Ulceby, in the “ Zoolo- 
gist” (s. s., p. 1412 and 1459). In his own and the adjoining 
parish of Aylesby, a pair or two have been observed during the 
last three summers, and a farmer, whose land adjoins the small 
stream which they frequent, at the latter place, assures Mr. 
Cordeaux that towards the end of July, 1868, he observed “ four 
young birds along with the old ones sitting on a sand-bank in 
the ‘beck.’”” They were “quite little things,” and could “ only 
fly a few yards at once”; they were quite a different colour to the 
old birds—“ much lighter.” They were all seen for some weeks 
after, about the same spot, and one of the young birds was shot 
and sent by his informant to Mr. Cordeaux, who unfortunately 
was from home at the time, and was therefore unable, as the bird 
was not preserved, to confirm his evidence, but he is himself 
perfectly satisfied with his authority. The young bird was said 
to be “about as large as a jack snipe.” 
