GREEN SANDPIPER. 223 
recorded in my own notes for the last eighteen years; 
and which plainly shows that there is no month in 
which one or more examples are not occasionally met 
with :— 
PAMUARY : hac. oetasorveces 6 OLY aichesiecsaee eee 2 
GD IMA! tat. set heah seth 2 AM SUSHI ca awaia cere one 6 
Warchye gictteast eat. cee dss ik Sentent bers acd. tases scbioee 8 
BA FUE as td. ig Bion Boreal aeelten + October ex.s ivieasnscseceacm 3 
RNR ees acide cis di emncioxcnas 2 November si: Jisbsasaaeeess 3 
SIBTIO shinee onus oc sivadea oases soc 1 December sc .csccsswesasens ones 5 
Mr. Lubbock states that he has generally seen 
these birds when snipe shooting in March, but never 
observed one later than the 11th of April; from the 
above list of specimens, however, I find the 23rd and 
30th of April and the 5th of May the latest dates of 
their appearance in spring, and the 28th of July (a 
bird killed at Yarmouth, and, therefore, probably a fresh 
arrival), the earliest date of autumnal migration; the 
usual period being between the 3rd and 12th of August. 
One example killed on the 1st of July, 1854, and 
another on the 27th of June, 1861, in the marshes 
between Acle and Yarmouth,* may have been either 
stragglers that had not paired off for the season, or birds 
that had really remained to nest in that neighbourhood. 
The number of specimens, also, obtained in December 
and January is quite confirmatory of Mr. Lubbock’s re- 
mark that this sandpiper is to be found in its accustomed 
haunts in the depth of winter, even with “deep snow 
on the ground, and all the snipes driven out of the 
county by stress of weather.” This was particularly 
observable during the intense frosts which prevailed in 
the winters of 1859-60 and 1866-67, and it is remark- 
able that at the latter period, when even our rivers 
* In Messrs. Paget’s “Sketch of the Natural History of 
Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood” this bird is described as 
“not uncommon.” 
