162 THE BIRDS OF OXFOEDSHIEE. 



THE KEDSHANK. 



Totanus calidris. 

 The Redshank is an occasional visitor. The Messrs. 

 Matthews included it in their list of winter visitors [Zoologist, 

 p. %S35)> ^^^ t^^G Rev, r. O. Morris mentions its occurrence 

 near Bampton [History of British Birds, vol, iv, p. 1 95), There 

 is a specimen in summer plumage in the Oxford Museum, 

 labelled Port Meadow, and in September, 1886, one was shot 

 at Chorton, near Islip. 



THE SPOTTED REDSHANK. \ H" ^ 



Totanus fuscus. 

 The Spotted Redshank, a rare visitor, has occurred in four 

 instances in Oxfordshire. In February, 1835, a female, and 

 in the following February a male and a female, were shot 

 on Otmoor (Matthews, Zoologist, p, 2537). A specimen in 

 immature plumage, now preserved in Banbury, was procured, 

 as I am informed by its owner, who shot it many years ago, 

 on the Cherwell at Huskott Mill, near Banbury, After the 

 exceptionally wet summer of 1879, three Spotted Redshanks, 

 in immature plimiage, were shot at Stanton Harcourt on the 

 23rd September, and are now in Mr. Gr. Arnatt^s collection. 



THE GREENSHANK. '1 ^ T 



Totanus canescens. 

 The Greenshank is an occasional visitor of uncommon 

 occurrence. A pair in the Messrs, Matthews^ collection were 

 killed near Oxford in January, 1838 [Zoologist, p. 2537), 

 and in the same periodical, Mr. A. H, Smee records that he 

 saw one feeding with some Common Sandpipers in a shallow 

 in the Isis, between Oxford and Eynsham, on the 15th August, 

 1873 [ih., ss, p, 3803), An immature bird, exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Oxfordshire Natural History Society, was shot 

 on the river near Old Shifford on the loth November, 1882 

 (W. H. Warner, MS.). Mr. W. Newton, jun., has one 



