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across a river attacked by a hawk, wlien it instantly dived, 

 and remained under water until its enemy disappeared. It 

 then emerged, and joined its companions. This bird when 

 flushed, sometimes utters a note resembling, as near as pos- 

 sible, that of the Kingfisher." Montagu says, having shot at 

 and winged one of this species as it was flying across a piece 

 of water, it fell, and floated towards the verge, and as we 

 reached to take it up, the bird instantly dived, and we never 

 saw it rise again to the surface. A Rev. correspondent in 

 a midland county, writes me word, that he has seen this bird 

 perch occasionally upon projecting roots and stumps of trees 

 by the river side ; that when diving, it uses its wings under 

 water the same as in flying ; and on one occasion when he 

 had shot at, and slightly wounded, a bird that fell about 

 twenty yards on the opposite side of a brook, no sooner was 

 it down than it turned back, and made direct for the water 

 as still affording the chance of escape. 



M. Nilsson says this species is common in Scandinavia 

 from April to August. Linnaeus, in his Tour in Lapland, 

 mentions having found a nest with four eggs near the water 

 side at Flaskesele, in Lycksehe Lapland, on the 31st of May 

 1732, old style. This species is also known to visit the west 

 coast of Norway, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. 



The Common Sandpiper is seen over the greater part of 

 Europe from the spring till its autumn migration, when it 

 goes southward, and is observed on its passage in Provence, 

 and Italy. The Zoological Society have received specimens 

 from Tangiers ; and Mr. Fellows mentions having shot spe- 

 cimens at Xanthus, in Asia minor. Colonel Sykes and Major 

 Franklin brought specimens from difterent parts of India. 

 Dr. Horsfield includes it in his catalogue of the Birds of 

 Java, and M. Temminck says that the great numbers of this 

 species killed at Java, Sumatra, at Timor, and Japan, proves 

 that it is there a migratory bird over these islands. This 



