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Redshank, but it still nests in many counties in England 

 where the localities are suitable, being naturally more 

 abundant in such as Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and 

 Lincolnshire. In the latter, Mr. Cordeaux informs the 

 Editor that Raventhorpe Common, near Brigg, which was 

 formerly a great haunt of this species, now consists of 

 enclosed fields of 50 to 100 acres, but notwithstanding this, 

 the Redshanks still return thither to nest in those fields 

 which are sown with clover. In Yorkshire it is now very 

 local during the breeding-season, and the same may be said 

 of Durham and Northumberland. In Cumberland, as Mr. 

 Duckworth informs the Editor, a good many breed about 

 the marshes of the Solway, assembling, as a rule, about 

 the middle of March, but in 1882 by the 17th of February. 

 In Wales, however, where the conditions of the country 

 would seem favourable, it appears to be rare during the 

 breeding-season, although not at all uncommon on the 

 coast in autumn. 



In Scotland the Redshank breeds in many localities — 

 sometimes at an elevation of 1,200 feet — from the Border 

 up to Sutherlandshire, where, however, it is very local ; it 

 has also been known to nest in the Hebrides and in the 

 Orkneys, and Saxby several times obtained its eggs in the 

 Shetlands. 



In Ireland it is to be found during the nesting-season 

 in most districts suitable to its habits ; and at other times of 

 the year it is abundant on the coast, especially on the bays 

 of the west, where the receding tide leaves large expanses 

 covered by Zostera marina, and there it is more frequent 

 in winter than on the coasts of Great Britain. 



The breeding range of the Redshank extends to Iceland, 

 the Fseroes, the coasts of Norway and Sweden, and as far 

 north as Archangel in Russia. South of this line the Red- 

 shank is found nesting throughout Europe and in Morocco ; 

 and, visiting the Canaries, it pushes its migrations along 

 the west coast of Africa to Cape Colony, and on tlie eastern 

 side, through Abyssinia, as far as Natal. It is believed to 

 breed in the Persian highlands, and is known to do so in 



