2 4 o THE FOWLER IN IRELAND. 



THE GREENSHANK (Tetanus canescens] is not 

 uncommon about the harbours and estuaries in 

 spring and autumn, and its peculiar whistle may 

 be often heard, especially by night. It is occasion- 

 ally met with in winter. On the sea-shore in the 

 neighbourhood of Clew Bay, co. Mayo, Greenshanks 

 are rather numerous. 



THE SPOTTED REDSHANK (Totanus f us cus] is very 

 rare, though I have records of half a dozen shot of 

 late years in Ireland. The note of this bird is 

 striking, and it was thus my attention was called to 

 the only one I ever obtained. Mr. Robert Warren, 

 of Ballina, shot one of these birds in the Moy estuary 

 in January, 1867, and it is now preserved in the fine 

 collection belonging to Cork College. In Octo- 

 ber, 1876, he obtained another in the same estuary. 

 The latter, which has also been preserved, was in 

 a state of plumage intermediate between that of 

 summer and winter. 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER ( Totanus ochropus] is not 

 very uncommon as a spring and autumn visitant. 

 Mr. Longfield, of Bandon, informs me that it is not 

 unfrequently met with on the Bandon River. Mr. 

 Williams, the taxidermist in Dublin, reports that 

 he always receives a few every year in September, 

 October, and November. 



THE COMMON SANDPIPER ( Tringoides hypoleucus], 

 as its name implie.s, is well known and generally 

 distributed. The Spotted Sandpiper of America 

 (Tringoides macularius) I have never seen or 

 obtained, but Mr. Reeves, of Capard, Queen's 

 County, tells me he has a specimen in his collec- 

 tion which he shot in Ireland in 1873 the only 



