The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 99 
numbers. A flock of twelve, we learn from the Migration 
Report for 1883, alighted on the Tuskar Rock, seven miles off 
the coast of Wexford, opposite St. Bride’s Bay, on May 18th, 
1883. 
SPOTTED REDSHANK, 7Zofanus fuscus. — An autumn visitor ; 
rare. In Mr. Mathias’ list: his brother, Mr. Lewis Mathias, of 
Lamphey Court, shot one in the Portclew Bottoms, near 
Freshwater East. Mr. Mathias informs us that he had seen 
several from time to time in Mr. Tracy’s shop at Pembroke. 
These were all birds of the year, and had been obtained in the 
autumn. Its longer bill and longer legs serve to distinguish 
this bird from the Common Redshank. In the nesting season 
it assumes a very singular plumage, in which it is black all over, 
save that the feathers of the back, scapulars, flank, and tail are 
tipped with semi-circular edgings of white, and the upper tail 
coverts are pure white. In this plumage itis very rarely obtained 
in the south-west of England. 
GREENSHANK, Zotanus canescens.—An autumn visitor. This fine 
Sandpiper is not very uncommon. Mr. Tracy says: ‘It is 
occasionally taken in the autumn.” We have seen a fine 
specimen at the house of Mr. John Worthington, Glyn-y-mel, 
Fishguard, that was shot by Sir Hugh Owen, at Goodwick. 
Our friend, the Rev. Marcus S. C. Rickards, vicar of Twig- 
worth, Gloucester, obtained a Greenshank on Caldy Island, 
during a recent visit to Tenby, He writes: “ Not many days 
after my arrival, I rowed over to Caldy Island, on the shore of 
which I started a Greenshank. After disembarking and walking 
inland, I roused a pair by the margin of a pool. They rose 
with the accustomed cry, and flew up the hills chasing and 
toying around each other in a very graceful and interesting 
manner. This was, to the best of my recollection, about the 
25th August.” The Greenshank nests commonly by the sides 
of lochs in the north of Scotland. 
