234 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
by Yarrell (“British Birds,” vol. ii., p. 614)* on the 
authority of the individual who sold it to Mr. J. H. 
Gurney, I had also the assurance, about three years 
back, of the late Mr. John Sayer, of this city, that 
was a skin when placed in his hands to be stuffed. 
A statement which I am the more ready to believe 
from a recent and careful examination of the bird in 
question. 
TOTANUS GLOTTIS (Linneus). 
GREENSHANK. 
The Greenshank is a regular though by no means 
numerous visitant to our coast, as a bird of passage, 
making its appearance with other migrants about the 
first week in May, and again at the close of the breed- 
ing season by the beginning of August. Being an 
extremely shy species but few specimens are obtained 
at either season, and these for the most part with the 
punt gun; and though stragglers are occasionally 
met with on our inland streams, the tidal channels of 
Breydon and Blakeney, or the flat sandy shores of the 
“Wash,” between Lynn and Hunstanton, have evidently 
most attractions for them during their brief stay. 
and but for this circumstance would have omitted this species 
altogether from his List of British birds, believing that the examples 
figured by Edwards and Bewick were no other than specimens of 
the common sandpiper. Since that time, however, this American 
species is said to have occurred in Great Britain, in several 
instances, but I am glad to learn that Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., is 
engaged in sifting the evidence upon which these records have 
been made, most of which are, I suspect, extremely doubtful. 
* This was omitted in the 3rd edition of Yarrell’s “ British 
Birds.” 
