SANDPIPERS. AT 
GREEN SANDPIPER. Totanus ochropus (Linnzus). 
A spring and autumn migrant; a few sometimes 
remain the winter. It is reported to have nested in 
Yorkshire—Mr. Roberts, of the museum at Scar- 
borough, having received specimens several times from 
the neighbourhood of Hunmanby, in all cases shot in 
June. ‘The keeper there says they breed in old crow’s 
nests; he has seen them come off from the nests”. 
This is quite in accordance with what has been ob- 
served of this species on the Continent ; and it is now 
a well-known fact that, instead of nesting on the ground 
like other Sandpipers, it makes use of the deserted nest 
of some insessorial bird, and frequently lays its eggs at 
a considerable height from the ground. An excellent 
account of the nidification of this bird, by Professor 
Newton, will be found in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society’ for 1863, pp. 529-532. 
WOOD SANDPIPER. Totanus glareola (Linneus). 
A spring and autumn migrant. A nestling bird 
was found at Beechamwell, Norfolk, by the late Mr. 
Scales, of Bustard celebrity£; and in June 1853 a 
nest and eggs were discovered by Mr. J. Hancock on 
Prestwick Carr, Northumberland). It is doubtful 
whether this species occurs in Ireland. 
* See Stevenson’s ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. i. p. 226, note. 
+ This article was reprinted in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1864, pp. 9115— 
9118, and in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser., xiv. pp. 221-224. 
+ Gurney and Fisher, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1846, p. 1324 and figure. 
§ Hewitson’s ‘Eges of British Birds’ (3rd ed.), vol. ii. p. 382. 
