242 TEIE BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



Markwick_, in liis Catalogue (Linn. Trans, vol. iv. p. 21), 

 writing of the Green and the Wood Sandpipers, says, 

 '' These birds agree so nearly in size, mode of living, and 

 other respects, that they are with the greatest probability 

 supposed to be only varieties of the same species, perhaps 

 male and female/' 



WOOD SANDPIPER. 



Totanus glareola. 



This species is much rarer than the last. With the ex- 

 ception of June and July, when it departs to its breeding- 

 quarters on the Continent, it may be occasionally met with 

 at any time, in various parts of the county, rarely on the 

 sea-shore, occasionally in streams running through woods, 

 but more frequently on open marshes or bogs, I find from 

 my own notes that Mr. Ellman informed me by letter that 

 he obtained a specimen in August 1851, at the Tide Mill, 

 near Newhaven; in the ' Zoologist ' (p. SST'Q), speaking of 

 the same example, he says it was in company with some 

 Dunlins, and when they rose it remained alone, thereby 

 attracting his attention and leading him to shoot it. About 

 the same time I saw at Mr. Swaysland's two others shot 

 near Shoreham. On August 16th, 1862, Mr, Smith shot a 

 pair on Henfield Common, and gave me one of them. It 

 was, however, too high to preserve. The other fell in an 

 inaccessible part of the bog and was unfortunately lost. 

 The two were together and uttered a sharp note on the wing. 

 Another was obtained on the same common on August 17th, 

 1868 ; it was alone, and is now in my collection. I have 

 seen one of these Sandpipers, which was shot near a pond 



