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south, by which date we always noticed a pair or two by the 
western Cleddy beneath Stone Hall. They remained for a 
week or ten days, and then quitted us for their nesting places 
higher up the stream. When fishing the brooks that run down 
from the Precelly Mountains near Maenchlogog, in June and 
July, we always found these Sandpipers abundant, and very 
noisy and excited when we were near their nests or young. In 
company with Ring Ouzels, Dippers, Common Snipe, Wheat- 
ears, Grey Wagtails, and Whinchats, we were glad to welcome 
them, and regarded their lively presence as they flew before us 
up the stream with their peculiar jerking flight with pleasure, as 
they added the charm of beauty and interest to our ramble. 
Early in August the Sandpipers leave their nesting stations and 
descend with their young to the mouths of the streams, by 
whose banks they have spent the summer, and pass a couple of 
months on the salt marshes and in the muddy creeks adjoining 
the shore before they migrate southwards for their winter 
quarters. 
GREEN SANDPIPER, Héelodromas ochropus—An autumn visitor. 
This Sandpiper, which is larger than the preceding species, and 
is to be known by its conspicuous white tail, broadly barred with 
black, and by its shrill whistle when it is flushed, makes its 
appearance by the sides of pools and creeks near the coast about 
the middle of August, and is fairlycommon. It has its favourite 
stations on the marshes, and the places where it has been 
noticed one year are almost certain to be revisited season after 
season. Not unfrequently it occurs throughout the winter 
months, and is always one of the very wildest of birds, and 
difficult to approach. Sir Hugh Owen has seen it at Good- 
wick. Mr. Tracy writes: “A few of these beautiful birds may 
always be obtained about the margins of our fresh water rivers 
and ponds during the autumn and winter.” Mr. Dix, in his 
neighbourhood, considered the Green Sandpiper scarce, but 
remarks that it was a regular visitor to certain spots every 
August, only remaining for a few days. This species differs 
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