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COMMON REDSHANK, Totanus calidris. Not un- 

 usual on some parts of the coast at the period of 

 the autumnal migration the latter end of August 

 or the beginning of September. Several have 

 been killed at Pagham, and near the mouths of the 

 tide-rivers at Shoreham and Newhaven. 



GREEN SANDPIPER, Totanus ochropus. Is gene- 

 rally found during the autumn and winter on the 

 banks of rivers, brooks and ponds, at a distance 

 from the sea. Has not been known to breed in 

 Sussex, but occasionally remains with us during 

 the summer. In June, 1843, I observed four on 

 the borders of a pond, through which ran a clear 

 trout stream, at Cocking, near Midhurst; but I 

 could not discover a nest or eggs, and the local 

 gamekeeper, whose attention I particularly directed 

 to the subject, was equally unsuccessful. When 

 disturbed at the pond, these birds used to retire 

 into the great woods in the immediate neighbour-^ 

 hood. Suspecting that they might pos$ibly be 

 examples of Totanus glareola, I procured one of 

 them in the following July, but on examination, it 

 proved to be an adult male of Totanus ochropus. 



COMMON SANDPIPER, Totanus hypoleucos. A 

 summer visitor. Rarely found on the shore, but 

 frequently met with on the banks of inland 

 streams, among the grassy borders of which the 

 nest is placed. 



