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WOOD SANDPIPER. 

 Totanus glareola (L.). 



Bird of passage in autumn ; of rare occurrence in spring. 



The first mention of the Wood Sandpiper in this county 

 is contained in the Report of Thomas Allis, in 1844, thus : 



Totanus glareola. Wood Sandpiper A specimen was shot at 

 Campsall, near Doncaster, and is now in the possession of H. Reid 

 of that place ; another specimen is reported by F. O. Morris as being 

 shot on the borders of Lincolnshire. 



The Wood Sandpiper is a rare visitant on passage, and, 

 like many others of its class, is more frequently met with 

 on its southward journey in autumn than during the spring 

 migration to its breeding quarters in north Europe. The 

 instances of its appearance at the latter season are very few, 

 only three being known to me. Mr. F. Boyes possesses 

 one obtained near Beverley in the spring of 1882 ; a male 

 in the Hull Museum was taken on the river Hull, near Pulfin, 

 in April 1886 ; and a third was reported by Mr. P. Loten, 

 at Easington, on 5th May 1889. 



In autumn it has, as stated above, occurred more frequently, 

 and for purposes of reference it may be well to give the data 

 in each case. 



Two examples are mentioned by Allis. 



The late A. Roberts of Scarborough stated that he stuffed 

 an immature specimen in 1856. 



A male and female in the Burton Agnes collection were 

 procured at Staithes in 1860. 



Mr. Thomas Boynton has an example which was formerly 

 in the Bessingby collection. 



At Knapton one was killed in October 1863, by a lad 

 with a pistol (E. Tindall, MS.). 



Mr. F. Boyes noted three on the river Hull on 4th August 

 1878, and secured two of them, the other being afterwards 

 procured by another person. 



