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a very fine specimen of the Green Sandpiper, which 

 was shot by His Grace in the spring of 1859, at 

 Chenies, in Buckinghamshire ; which, he adds, ^ does 

 not seem a suitable locahty for such a bird.' The 

 plumage of this bird was remarkably beautiful ; the 

 white of the lower parts, and the upper and under 

 tail-coverts, were of a spotless purity. A second was 

 shot on Dorney Common, near Eton, by Mr. S. Hall, 

 of Windsor, in the autumn of 1863 : this was a male, 

 but Mr. Hall saw another bird, probably the female, 

 at the same time. Mr. D. Mackenzie informs me 

 that he very frequently observed a pair of these birds 

 near Fawley, in December, 1864. He shot one on 

 the 24th of December, and the other on the nth of 

 February, 1865. Early in the winter of 1865, two 

 of these Sandpipers were seen on the same common 

 by Mr. Ferry, of Eton, who shot one of them, and 

 has preserved it in his collection. 



My friend Mr. R. B. Sharpe informed me that a 

 fine male of this species, now in the collection of 

 Mrs. De Vitre, was shot in the winter of 1865, while 

 flying along the Thames, near Cookham. In the 

 spring of 1867, another example was killed on the 

 banks of the Thames near Surley : I examined this 

 bird, and the man to whom it belonged gravely 

 informed me that it was a Godwit ! The Rev. H. 

 Crewe wrote me word that the Green Sandpiper is 

 observed to frequent the reservoirs and canals near 

 Drayton Beauchamp in small parties every winter. 



