THE GREEN SANDPIPEE. 



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and I saw a Green Sandpiper on the Whitadder near 

 Clarabad Mill." Mr. James Purves, gamekeeper at Mor- 

 dington, has informed me that he has twice shot this 

 species on that estate, the first instance being in a bog at 

 the " Lang Belt " plantation, and the next in a ditch lead- 

 ing to Mordington Mains upper damhead. Mr. Andrew 

 Brotherston, bird-stuffier, Kelso, mentioned to me on the 

 19th of March 1885 that, about the middle of August 

 1884, three examples were shot on a pond on the march 

 between the farms of Lochton, in the parish of Eccles and 

 Harpertown. Mr. John Thomson, Maxton, tells me that a 

 specimen was shot near Mnewells in the second week of 

 January 1891. 1 



The Green Sandpiper is very erratic in its movements, 

 and is a visitor to the British Islands on spring and autumn 

 migration. 



i Letter dated the 29th of January 1891. 



