.'338 Notice of the Arrival of Birds of Passage at Carlisle. 



of September, within a very short distance of the locality where 

 a young male was obtained in August 1832, with which it 

 agreed in almost every respect : two others were seen, in all 

 probability part of the same brood*. 



152. Pygmy Curlew (Tringa subarquata). — A very beau- 

 tiful male, in nearly complete summer plumage, was met with 

 on Rockcliff" Salt Marsh, on the 27th of May, which is 

 the first specimen of the Pygmy Curlew that has been obtained 

 in this part of the county, to our knowledge. It was still in 

 the moult, and excessively fat. The stomach contained the 

 fragments of Shrimps (Crangon vulgaris), Sandhoppers (Ta- 

 litrus Locusta), &c, and had a very strong marine scent. 



15.5. Little, or Double Fork-tailed Sandpiper {Tringa minuta). 

 — Two young females of the year, of this diminutive species 

 of Sandpiper were procured on the coast, at no great distance 

 from Brow-Houses on the 24th of August, and are the first 

 young birds we have hitherto seen. The reader, upon re- 

 ferring to our last communication, will find the particulars of 

 the capture of two adults, &c.f. 



159. Turnstone (Strepsilas Interpres). — On the 24th of Au- 

 gust, five young Turnstones were taken alive in a rather sin- 

 gular situation, namely, in the trap of a stake-net on the coast. 

 We have been very credibly informed that the Cuckoo (Cu- 

 culus canorus), Curlew (Numenius arquata), and several of the 

 Gulls have been found in similar traps. 



162. Common Sanderling (Calidris arenaria). — So late as 

 the 4th of June, several Sanderlings were killed on the coast, 

 in the vicinity of Brow-Houses, in full summer livery. The 

 few that came under our inspection were so extremely fat, 

 that upon some parts of the body it was nearly one quarter of 

 an inch in thickness. The stomachs of the two or three 

 which we had an opportunity of examining contained the re- 

 mains of Shrimps (Crangon vulgaris), Sandhoppers (Talitrus 

 Locusta), &c, and had the same marine scent as noticed in that 

 of the Pygmy Curlew. The irides of these birds were all of 

 a clear dark brown. 



186. Common Shoveler (Spat hulea clypeata). — A very fine 

 female Shoveler was shot on Thurston-field Lough on the 

 6th of November, a bird of rather rare occurrence in this 

 district. The gullet and stomach contained an immense num- 

 ber of freshwater shells, recently swallowed : amongst others 

 we detected specimens of the glutinous mud shell (Limneus 

 glutinosus,Drap.), and the crested valve shell ( ValvataSpirorbis 

 Drap.). 



* Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., Third Series, vol. ii. p. 99. f Jbid. p. 100. 



