164 FAUNA OF SHROPSHIRE. 



Jack Snipe. Never so plentiful as the common Snipe, the 



G. gallinula. Jack Snipe is an irregular winter visitor 



to Shropshire. Occasionally it is seen 



also in early summer but has never nested with us. 



(Illustration, page 87.) 



Bonaparte's Sandpiper. The first specimen of this rare 

 Tringa fuscicollis. species obtained in Britain was shot at 



Stoke Heath, before 1839. It is now in 

 the collection at Hawkstone. 



Dunlin. A common shore bird that varies remarkably in the 



T. alpina. colour of its plumage at different 



seasons. It rarely visits Shropshire, 



but has been seen on the Teme, and one was shot at 



Ticklerton, about 1840; another at Hawkstone, about 1848; 



a third at Westhope, Feb. i5th, 1870 ; and a fourth at 



Madeley, Dec. 24th, 1890; while a Dunlin in partial 



summer dress was seen by Mr. Aplin flying up the Severn, 



near Shrewsbury, April soth, 1888. 



Little Stint. Resembles the last but is much smaller. It visits 

 T. minuta. Britain on its spring and autumn migrations 



but no specimen has ever been shot in Shrop- 

 shire. Mr. Rocke mentions a flock of about twenty, seen on the Teme 

 in the winter of 1864, which he believed to be of this species. 



Curlew Sandpiper. Resembles a very small Curlew. Its 



T. subarquata visits are confined chiefly to the Eastern 



Aug. May. shores of Great Britain, and occur mostly 



in August and April. One was shot on 



the old Shrewsbury racecourse (near Oxon) in 1836, and 



five were killed, out of a flock of about forty, in a turnip 



field at Barrow, Broseley, Sept. 9th, 1897. Some of 



