ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM A SOUTH LONDON SUBURB. 
QUAIL §$ (Accidental). 
An example of this very unlikely and unexpected bird 
crossed my garden, low, on the evening of 16th June, 1909. 
I imagine it must have been an escape from one of the London 
Markets. The following year, however, | heard one calling in a 
turnip field so near as Banstead, on the 8th June. 
LANDRAIL (Occasional). 
I have not met with the species myself, but a friend heard 
one calling in College Road, in June, 1901, and the keeper at 
Dulwich Wood reported one in an adjoining meadow on the 
gth and roth May, 1905. 
COMMON SANDPIPER (Occasional). 
Has been observed fairly frequently. As a spring visitor 
—on April 20th, 1895, one by the side of the small lake at 
Crystal Palace; May 4th, 1897, one by the pond-side on 
Tooting Common; April 27th, 1898, there were three at the 
lake in Dulwich Park, and two others on the 5th May. In 
1901, two in Dulwich Park, April 28th, and one on the 12th 
and also 16th May; this year (1909), one at the same lake, 
April 18th and 30th. 
As an autumn visitor, scarcely so often observed, but has 
been heard passing over after dark on several occasions in Sep- 
tember. I saw one once in the month of July—zist, 1899— 
at Tooting pond, and one at the same place, August 8th, 1891 ; 
whilst on 8th August, 1905, I saw two by the lake in Dulwich 
Park. All these were, of course, birds on their return journey 
from their breeding haunts. 
GREEN SANDPIPER (Occasional). 
This is a chance passing visitor of which I have three notes. 
The first was heard travelling W. at dusk, August 11th, 1880; 
the second I flushed from beside the lake in Dulwich Park, Sep- 
tember 2Ist, 1900; and the third I heard passing over, S.W., 
on the night of August 18th, 1902. 
GREENSHANK (Occasional). 
This has twice been heard passing over at the time ot 
migration, viz.: September Oth, 1880, at 10 p.m.; and on 
August 18th, 1902, one passed S.W. at night, uttering its far- 
reaching call. 
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