630 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



An immature male, captured at Kilnsea on yth September 

 1878, was recorded by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke in the Naturalist 

 (1879, p. 179), with the remark that another was seen by him 

 the same day. 



On Coatham Marshes on 6th August 1881, Mr. E. B. 

 Emerson killed an adult example, but the sex was not 

 ascertained (Zool. 1882, p^ 91). 



In the same journal for 1884 (p. 179), Mr. W. Eagle Clarke 

 mentions seeing a specimen in the possession of Mr. Jones 

 of Bridlington, taken on the south sands in mid-August 1883 ; 

 and in September of the same year three were brought to 

 Mr. P. Loten of Easington (torn. cit. p. 185). 



At Spurn on 2ist August 1884, a female example was 

 obtained ; and another specimen in September 1887 (Ninth 

 Migration Report, p. 32). 



On 6th August 1888, Mr. P. Loten reported the occurrence 

 of one " last week." 



The late J. Cordeaux, writing to the Naturalist (1889, 

 p. 91), recorded four in the Spurn neighbourhood during 

 autumn, one being a female, and probably mature. 



About the year 1890 one occurred at Hornby Castle, 

 the seat of the Duke of Leeds, as I am informed by Mr. J. 

 Morley. 



In October 1899 a female specimen, obtained near Beverley, 

 was taken to Mr. Stuart of that place, who kindly gave me an 

 opportunity of examining it. Another example in Mr. Stuart's 

 possession was picked up at D alt on Holme on nth August 

 1904. 



Mr. F. Boyes remarks that this bird was formerly probably 

 a nesting species in the neighbourhood of Beverley ; in its 

 habits it differs from those of its congener, the Green Sand- 

 piper (with which it may sometimes be confounded by in- 

 competent ornithologists), in that it resorts more to swampy 

 ground than to the shallow streams beloved by the latter 

 bird ; he has noticed it on several occasions wading about 

 on the floating weeds in the river Hull, and in spring several 

 years ago he saw a male bird toying about in the air, in a 

 similar manner to Redshanks when on their breeding grounds ; 



