234 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



although the Eedshank is never scarce clurmg the breed- 

 mg months, its nest has seldom been found within the 

 county limits. Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson has seen eggs on 

 Walney, which had been taken there, and is confident 

 that it breeds in the \Yinster valley, but the Cumber- 

 land coast is the nearest point where it nests in any 

 numbers. Mr. T. Jackson says that it is common all 

 the year round on the Lune, frequenting the creeks 

 on the marshes, and that he considers it to be largely 

 on the increase. 



SPOTTED REDSHANK. 



ToTANUS Fuscus (Linnffius). 



A rare visitor, occurring irregularly on passage. Mr. 

 C. S. Gregson (Proc. Histor. Sac. Lane, and Chesh., 

 1865-66) says he shot one at the mouth of the Alt in 

 October, 1864, and Mr. H. Miller writes me, that about 

 1873 he had a specimen which was killed on the edge 

 of the Calder above Whalley. Mr. P. J. Hornby shot 

 a male bird on August 22nd, 1877, near St. Michael's- 

 on-Wyre, and Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson says that a pair in 

 summer plumage were seen on the Eibble in May, many 

 years ago, by the late James Cooper. In October, 1883, 

 about the 17th, as Mr. W. Fitzherbert Brockholes 

 informs me, one was sent him shot near Pilling. 



[In The Zoologist, 1889, p. 109, Mr. Chas. F. Archi- 

 bald, of Ptusland Hall, Ulverston, reports upon a speci- 

 men in sooty plumage, shot in the month of April a 

 few years previously. — Ed.j 



