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mentioned. By creeping on my hands and knees, I ob- 

 tained a good view of them as they walked about on a 

 mud bank, and believe from the duller look of the plumage 

 of some, that they were two old birds with a brood of 

 young ones. They appear to separate soon after their 

 arrival, or to unite for a day or two as fancy leads them." 



The authors of the Catalogue of Norfolk and Suffolk 

 Birds say, " We cannot positively affirm that this species 

 breeds here, though it seems probable that it sometimes 

 does so, as five Green Sandpipers were constantly found 

 one summer near the old decoy at Levington in Suffolk." 

 Mr. Salmon believes that the Green Sandpiper breeds in 

 Norfolk. It has been killed in Cambridgeshire, in May 

 and in August. The specimen from which the figure at 

 the head of this subject was drawn, was given me by my 

 friend Thomas Wortham, Esq., of Royston, who shot it 

 at Bassingbourne Spring, in Cambridgeshire, a favourite 

 locality, where several other examples have been killed. 

 The bird is seen in these eastern counties throughout the 

 winter. 



Mr. Blyth considers that the Green Sandpiper breeds in 

 Surrey, having seen a very young one shot near Godal- 

 ming with its primary quill -feathers incompletely deve- 

 loped. The same observer saw both adult birds and young 

 broods of three or four birds each in the first week of 

 August, 1837, frequenting muddy watercourses on a small 

 salt-water marsh near Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, 

 and has known one specimen to have been killed in Feb- 

 ruary. It is not uncommon along the whole line of the 

 southern marine counties from Romney Marsh in Kent, to 

 Sussex, Hampshire, and thence to the Land's End. Mr. 

 Edward Doubleday saw several pairs about small streams 

 in the vicinity of Snowdon, in summer, and two pair were 

 observed near Capel Carig. This bird is a summer visitor 



