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appears early in the autumn, and then but 

 sparingly." Dr. Elliot writes that this bird occurs 

 at Kingsbridge ''quite independently of season." 

 Dr. Moore, like Gatcombe, examined birds killed 

 in January. 



WOOD SANDPIPER.— T^otawMs glareola (Gmel). 



A RARE visitant. The Rev. M. A. Mathew records 

 a bird shot near Barnstaple on the 13th of August, 

 1859, and a second shot near Barnstaple in the 

 same month, in the year, 1875. Mr. Gatcombe 

 comments on the absence of this species from the 

 Plymouth district, but it occurs on the south coast 

 occasionally. A specimen killed at Slapton Ley is 

 preserved in the Torquay Museum. 



REDSHANK.— rotawMs calidris (Linn). 



An autumn and winter visitant to our estuaries. 

 The Rev. M. A. Mathew includes the Redshank in 

 his M.S. list of birds which nest in Devon ; but I 

 have not met with it, myself, in the breeding season. 



SPOTTED REDSHANK.— rotawz^s fuscus (Linn). 



A RARE autumii (and winter) visitant, only reported 

 from our southern estuaries, and there obtained at 

 long intervals, as a straggler from its proper lines 

 of migration. Montagu records a specimen killed 

 in South Devon in the month of August. Dr. 

 Moore obtained a specimen shot in Hamoaze, 



