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birds seen (a considerable number) had their winter habits 

 and were rather wild. 



1.24. Tringa bairdi. Baird^s Sandpiper. 



On the 3rd April I met with a party of five small Tring(B 

 in a part of the Sauce where it was wide and shallow with 

 low underbanks. I believe they were of this species^ but 

 the only one I knocked over managed to hide itself effectually. 

 The next day I shot a female from a boggy bit higher up 

 the river where I often shot Snipe. She rose silently and 

 had somewhat the appearance of a small Snipe; the food in 

 the stomach was the remains of small coleopterous and other 

 aquatic insects. 



-< 125. ToTANUs MELANOLEUcus. Greater Yellowshank. 



I saw an example of either this species or T. flavipes (I 

 think the latter) on the 20th October. In autumn this 

 species appeared ; one shot on 3rd March from a caiiada 

 was extremely fat. Just a month later I shot one of a pair, 

 and a day or two after saw another. The note is very loud 

 and powerful, somewhat I'esembling that of the Greenshank, 

 sometimes triple, but generally quadruple. 



126. Rhyacophilus solitarius. Solitary Sandpiper. 



Probably a visitor for the northern autumn and winter, 

 remaining into spring. It was not common, but I saw and 

 shot specimens at various dates between 23rd November 

 and 4th April, on which date I saw two and shot one of them. 

 They like shallow spots in a river where there is some monte 

 and an open space in it, but one haunted the shelving 

 bank of a little open Canada. Once or twice I saw it in 

 just such a place as you expect to find our Green Sandpiper 

 inhabiting in summer. The habits of the bird are much 

 like those of the last-named bird ; its note, too, is somewhat 

 similar, but is not so loud and full, intermediate perhaps 

 between the notes of the Green and Common Sandpipers. 



^ 127. AcTiTURUs BARTRAMius. Bartraui^s Sandpiper. 



Comes from the northern to " winter " in the southern 

 continent, where it arrives in spring-time. The first I saw 



