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GREEN SANDPIPER. Totanus ochropus (Linnaeus). 



A spring and autumn migrant ; a few sometimes 

 remain the winter. It is reported to have nested in 

 Yorkshire Mr. Roberts, of the museum at Scar- 

 borough, having received specimens several times from 

 the neighbourhood of Hunmanby, in all cases shot in 

 June. The keeper there says they breed in old crow's 

 nests ; he has seen them come off from the nests*. 

 This is quite in accordance with what has been ob- 

 served of this species on the Continent ; and it is now 

 a well-known fact that, instead of nesting on the ground 

 like other Sandpipers, it makes use of the deserted nest 

 of some insessorial bird, and frequently lays its eggs at 

 a considerable height from the ground. An excellent 

 account of the nidification of this bird, by Professor 

 Newton, will be found in the ' Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society ' for 1863, pp. 529-532 f. 



WOOD SAKDPIPEB. Totanus glareola (Linnseus). 



A spring and autumn migrant. A nestling bird 

 was found at Beechamwell, Norfolk, by the late Mr. 

 Scales, of Bustard celebrity $; and in June 1853 a 

 nest and eggs were discovered by Mr. J. Hancock on 

 Prestwick Carr, Northumberland . It is doubtful 

 whether this species occurs in Ireland. 



* See Stevenson's ' Birds of Norfolk/ vol. ii. p. 226, note. 

 f This article was reprinted in the Zoologist ' for 1864, pp. 9115- 

 9118, and in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser., xiv. pp. 221-224. 

 i Gurney and Fisher, ' Zoologist,' 1846, p. 1324 and figure. 

 Hewitson's ' Eggs of British Birds ' (3rd ed.), vol. ii. p. 332. 



