236 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
drawing of a genuine egg of this bird, obtained in 
Sutherlandshire by Sir W. M. E. Milner.* The general 
colour and markings of Mr. Smith’s eggs agreed 
with the drawing, although they differed somewhat in 
form, being “less elongated.” But it must be remem- 
bered that Sir William’s specimen was the result of a 
Ceesarian operation, and had probably not received its 
full colouring. Indeed, Mr. A. Newton tells me that 
he also saw the drawing, of which he now possesses a 
fac simile, and that it was so unlike the normal egg of 
the species that no correct opinion could possibly be 
formed from it. Beyond the statement, then, that 
there appeared to be no other species to which these 
eges could be referred, no satisfactory conclusion was 
arrived at; and I also remember in 1853 being shown 
two fresh eggs, said to have been found in the marshes 
near Yarmouth, which answered very nearly to the 
description of the eggs of the greenshank as given by 
Macgillivray. These, I believe, passed into Mr. J. 
H. Gurney’s possession, but were never satisfactorily 
identified. 
Of some dozen examples recorded in my own notes, 
IT find about equal numbers were killed in spring 
and autumn, the dates at the former period varying 
between the 8th and 19th of May, and at the latter 
between the 2nd of August and the 16th of September.t 
I have never known this bird to appear even as a 
strageler during the winter months, but Mr. Dowell 
observed it at Blakeney in 1848, in the early part of 
October; and in 1853, saw a single bird at the “freshes” 
as early as the 25th of July. 
* See “ Zoologist,” 1848, pp. 2014 and 2024. 
+ Mr. A. C. Kennedy in “Land and Water” (September 21st, 
1867) states that on the 11th of September, 1867, “a fisherman 
shot three specimens of the greenshank on the river Alde, Alde- 
burgh, Suffolk.” 
