232 THE BIEDS OF SUSSEX. 



he mentions that two were shot inside the mud walls of 

 Prior's Marsh, near Chichester, on Aug. 25th, 1873, and 

 that their note resembles " Chicket, Chicket." The eggs 

 were discovered hy Mr. Wolley in the interior of Lapland, 

 who states that the note was like that of the Red-necked 

 Phalarope and the Sanderlings, and gives a very interesting 

 account of it, too long to quote. He also states that the 

 nest is placed in hummocky ground covered with Carices 

 and cloudberry. It is a mere depression in the ground, 

 with such leaves of the cloudberry and other dry material 

 as were in easy reach. The bird flew round, or perched on 

 a stone, or the gable of a cottage, uttering a trilling note, 

 M'hich put him in mind of that of the Grasshopper Warbler 

 {vide Yarrell, vol. iii. pp. 400, 401). In the 'Zoologist' 

 (p. 3279), Mr. Ellman records that he obtained a specimen 

 of this minute Sandpiper among the mud- pells at Newhaven, 

 October 5th, 1851. 



CURLEW SANDPIPER. 



Trmga suharquata. 



This is a migratory species, arriving in May, when these 

 birds are in full breeding-plumage. In August and Sep- 

 tember much greater numbers join them, consisting for the 

 most part of birds of the year. 



They seldom remain long enough to have assumed the 

 winter plumage, but before leaving they are in a state of 

 transition, many of the red feathers of the underparts 

 being mingled with the approaching winter dress. 



Their habits in Sussex are much the same as those of the 



