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visitor, but is most frequently seen and obtained about the 

 periods of their vernal and autumnal migration, on their 

 passage to and from those northern localities in which they 

 pass their breeding-season. They are to be found most 

 frequently in the London market towards the end of April 

 and in May, their plumage then exhibiting to some extent 

 the darker streaks and spots which mark the commence- 

 ment of their summer dress, In Ireland they are seen in 

 autumn, Mr. Thompson informs me, in very small parties, 

 but generally singly; and they are recorded as having 

 been killed in autumn, and sometimes early in winter, in 

 the counties along the line of our southern coast. These 

 birds are occasionally met with in inland counties. Mr. 

 Jesse sent me notice of one that was killed near Ascot 

 Heath, not far from the house of Mr. Davis, the well- 

 known huntsman of Her Majesty's stag hounds ; and 

 Rusticus has mentioned one that was shot near Godal- 

 ming. Specimens have also been killed in Cambridgeshire, 

 Norfolk, and Lincolnshire. In the vicinity of Carlisle, 

 Mr. Heysham says, that during the month of August, 

 \ 832, three or four of these birds were occasionally seen 

 on Brugh and Rockcliif salt marshes, and on the 25th a 

 young male and female were procured. These two birds 

 had been feeding upon small Smelts and Shrimps. A 

 third specimen, which was killed about ten days earlier 

 in the same month, on the banks of the river Eden, near 

 Botchardby, had recently swallowed a bearded Loche. 



Mr. Macgillivray furnished the following notice of the 

 habits of the Greenshank as observed in the Hebrides to 

 his friend Mr. Audubon.* "The Greenshank is seen in 

 the outer Hebrides early in spring, and generally departs 

 in October, although I have observed individuals there in 

 November. Previous to the commencement of the breeding- 

 * Ornithological Biography, vol. iii. p. 483. 



