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Mr. Thomas Gough, of Kendal, tells me that the nest of the Whim- 

 brel has been recently found on the mountains of Yorkshire adjoining 

 Westmoreland, and that he has perfect confidence in his informant. 



Mr. W. Dunbar describes the Whimbrel as plentiful during the 

 breeding-season all along the coast of Sutherland and Caithness, and 

 he tells me that it breeds in open moors near the sea. Mr. H. Osborne 

 also marks the Whimbrel as breeding in Caithness. It breeds in Orkney 

 and Shetland, but not in the Outer Hebrides. 



TOTANUS CALIDRIS (Bechst}. Common Redshank. 



Provinces III. IV. VIII. X.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 7, 8, 10, 11, (12), 19, 20, 22-26, 28-38. 



Lat. 50-61. " Scottish" type, or Northern. 



A few pairs still breed in Kent and Essex, but the bird is rapidly 

 decreasing in the south, and has almost deserted the fens of the 

 eastern counties, being driven out as its haunts become more and 

 more circumscribed by drainage and cultivation. I have no authority 

 for its breeding in Wales or Lancashire, though the bird can hardly be 

 supposed wanting in Subprovinces 17, 18, and 21. 



Obs. The Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus] has been recorded 

 by Mr. R. Lubbock (Fauna of Norfolk, p. 75) as having bred in 

 Norfolk, but there was probably some mistake in the observation 

 (cf. ' Proc. Zool. Soc.' 1863, p. 529). 



TOTANUS GLAREOLA (Linn.}. Wood-Sandpiper. 



Provinces IV. XI. XV. ? 



Subprovinces u, 24, 31 ? 



Lat. 52-56 or 58. " Scottish " ? type. Not in Ireland. 



A nest was found by Mr. John Hancock at Prestwich Carr, near 

 Newcastle, June 3, 1853. And my friend Mr. F. Bond tells me that he 

 has some eggs taken in Elginshire, which he considers belong to the 

 Wood-Sandpiper. Messrs. Gurney and Fisher state (Zool. 1323), on 

 Mr. Scales' s authority, that a young bird, of which a figure is given, 

 not yet having entirely lost its down, "was shot at Beachamwell, in 

 Norfolk, and may fairly be supposed to have been hatched near the 

 spot where it was killed." 



TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCA (G. R. Gray}. Common Sandpiper. 



Provinces I. II. ? V.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces i, 2, 3, 4?, 6, 13-18, 20-37, 38. 



Lat. 50-61. " Scottish " type, or Northern. 



Scarce in the south during the breeding-season, and apparently 

 wanting in several of the southern and eastern counties. The Common 

 Sandpiper is reported to breed only occasionally in Cornwall, but 

 regularly in North and South Devon and Somerset. In Dorset it 



