in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 61 
shire adjoining Westmoreland, and that he has perfect confidence 
in his informant. 
Mr. W. Dunbar describes the Whimbrel as plentiful during 
the breeding-season all along the coast of Sutherland and Caith- 
ness, and he tells me that it breeds in open moors near the sea. 
Mr. H. Osborne also marks the Whimbrel as breeding in Caith- 
ness. It breeds in Orkney and Shetland, but not in the Outer 
Hebrides. 
Toranvs cALipRis (Bechst.). Common Redshank. 
Provinces III. 1V. VIII. X.-X VIII. 
Subprovinces 7, 8, 10, 11, (12), 19, 20, 22-26, 28-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “Scottish ” type, or Northern. 
A few pairs still breed in Kent and Essex, but the bird is 
rapidly decreasing in the south, and has almost deserted the fens 
of the eastern counties, being driven out as its haunts become 
more and more circumscribed by drainage and cultivation. I 
have no authority for its breeding in Wales or Lancashire, though 
the bird can hardly be supposed wanting in Subprovinces 17, 18, 
and 21, 
Obs.—The Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus) has been 
recorded by Mr. R. Lubbock (Fauna of Norfolk, p. 75) as having 
bred in Norfolk, but there was probably some mistake in the 
observation (cf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 529). 
ToTaNuUS GLAREOLA (Limn.). Wood-Sandpiper. 
Provinces IV. XI. XV.? 
Subprovinces 11, 24, 31? 
Lat. 52°-56° or 58°. “ Scottish”? type. Not in Ireland. 
A nest was found by Mr. John Hancock at Prestwich Carr, 
near Newcastle, June 3, 1853. And my friend Mr. F. Bond 
tells me that he has some eggs taken in Elginshire, which he 
considers belong to the Wood-Sandpiper. Messrs. Gurney and 
Fisher state (Zool. 1323), on Mr. Scales’s authority, that a young 
bird, of which a figure is given, not yet having entirely lost its 
down, “ was shot at Beachamwell, in Norfolk, and may fairly 
be supposed to have been hatehed near the spot where it was 
killed.” 
