WOOD SANDPIPER.— COMMON REDSHANK. 243 



at King^s Farm, Cowfold, but cannot give the date. Mr. 

 Kiiox (O. R. p. 231) states that Mr. Swayslaud informed 

 him that four were secured near Worthing, in September 

 1851. 



Mr. Jeffery, in his p. n., mentions one shot near Pagham, 

 on October 10th, 1864, and another, at the same place, in 

 August 1865, which was sent to Chichester Museum ; 

 another, also at Pagham, in 1866, and a fourth at Itchenor, 

 on May 10th, 1880. 



With respect to the flight of the Wood Sandpiper, Mr. 

 Hancock, who found the only nest known to have been 

 taken in England, states that it flies in circles, and at 

 every change in the direction of its flight, a musical, 

 sharp, and trilling sound maj^ be heard, which endures for 

 several seconds, at the same time the wings are observed to 

 strike the air with a short, rapid, tremulous motion, which, 

 there is little reason to doubt, causes this remarkable sound. 

 See his 'Birds of Northumberland and Durham,^ p. 121. 

 Its food is insects and worms. The nest is placed in the 

 thickest herbage of the marsli, and is very difficult to 

 discover. It does not breed in Sussex. 



COMMON REDSHANK. 



Totanus calidris. 



The Redshank, generally known to the shore-shooter as the 

 Redlegs, is resident throughout the year, and is one of the 

 commonest species of its genus, frequenting the mud flats 

 of our estuaries in considerable fl ocks as soon as they begin 

 to be uncovered by the tide; retiring, as the water rises, 



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