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GENUS TOTANUS. 



WOOD-SANDPIPEPu 



ToTANus GLAREOLA (J. F. Gmeliii) . 



A rare visitor, and, curiously enough, all the occur- 

 rences I have heard of, except one recorded by Mr, N. 

 Cooke, of Warrington {ZooL, Sept. 28, 1848, p. 2304), 

 are from the Calder and Piibble in the neighbourhood of 

 Mytton and Whalley. Mr. W. Naylor preserved one 

 shot at Calder foot on November 18, 1867, and has a 

 second killed in May, 1869, in Mytton wood, which had 

 a mate with it, and the late Mr. David Mitchell, about 

 four 3-ears before, saw two old birds near the same 

 place, having four young with them, which he believed 

 to have been bred there, for he averred that the}' were 

 only able to fly just sufficiently well to avoid capture, 

 and owing to this the parents were quite close to him 

 many times. Mr. H. Miller also tells me that he has 

 mounted two birds which were shot near Cock Bridge, 

 on the banks of the Calder — one in 1879, in August, 

 he thinks. Mr. Cooke says of his specimen that it was 

 shot' as it rose from a pit, in company with some 

 Snipes, and that it was identified by [the latej Mr. H. 

 Doubleday. 



EEDSHANK. 



ToTANus cALiDRis (Linnpeus). 



This species is common on the coast from August to 

 April, and occasional stragglers appear in winter inland. 

 The great majority, however, leave in spring, and 



