46 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



Fam. SCOLOPACID.E. 



AVOCET. Eecurvirostra avocetta, Linnaeus. 



Formerly a regular, now an occasional summer 

 visitant. The neighbourhood of Eye in Sussex, Eom- 

 ney Marsh in Kent, Salthouse in Norfolk, and West 

 Fen in Lincolnshire are upon record as former breed- 

 ing-places*. To these localities may be added Win- 

 terton and Horsey in Norfolk, the neighbourhood of 

 the Seven-Mile-House on the Bure, near Yarmouth f, 

 and the mere-lands at Thorpe, near AldeburghJ. 



GEEENSHANK. Totanus glottis (Pallas). 



A spring and autumn migrant, nesting regularly 

 in some parts of Scotland. See A. G. More, in c The 

 Ibis' for 1865, p. 436, and Gray's ' Birds of the West 

 of Scotland,' p. 301. 



DUSKY EEDSHANK. Totanm fuscus (Linnaeus). 



A spring and autumn migrant to England and 

 Scotland ; a rare visitant to Ireland. 



COMMON EEDSHANK. Totanus calidris (Linnaeus). 



Resident and generally distributed, but migratory 

 in spring and autumn. 



* < The Ibis,' 1865, p. 436. 



t Stevenson, < Birds of Norfolk,' ii. p. 238. 



J Hele, < Notes about Aldeburgh/ p. 120. 



