GREEN SANDPIPER. 221 
An adult bird in the Warrington Museum is labelled, 
‘Shot by Ed. Lord from the banks of the Mersey near 
Fiddler’s Ferry, May 1863.’ After so great a lapse of 
time it is impossible to substantiate this occurrence, but 
the evidence in its support is considered by the late 
Henry Seebohm? and Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun.,? to be 
trustworthy, in that it has never been refuted. The 
specimen was, prior to its acquisition by the Warrington 
Museum, in the possession of the late C. S. Gregson, 
who supplied Mr. H. E. Smith with the following in- 
formation :— Edwin Lord of Warrington shot two on 
the Mersey below that town in May 1863, one of which 
I possess. In 1865 he again saw this species on the 
river, but did not get a shot. * Mr. Gregson sub- 
sequently informed Mr. Gurney that he saw in all 
four specimens in the flesh and in process of skinning 
by Lord.2 Mr. Linnzus Greening told Dr. Dobie that 
his father, the late Noah Greening, saw Mr. Gregson’s 
specimen in the flesh Assuming that no deception 
was practised upon Mr. Gregson with regard to the 
facts of the case, it is very remarkable that this casual 
straggler from the American continent should have 
occurred at the same place on the Mersey in two 
different years, 1863 and 1865. | 
GREEN SANDPIPER. 
TOTANUS OCHROPUS (Linneus). 
Although less common than in the eastern counties, 
the Green Sandpiper has been observed in Cheshire on 
a good many occasions in autumn and winter. Brock- 
1 British Birds, vol. iii. p. 123. 
2 Rambles of a Naturalist, pp. 255-262. 
3H. E. Smith, op. cit. p. 239. 4 Dobie, op. czt. p. 339. 
