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plumage, during the last week of May 1833. I have ob- 

 tained this bird in June in the height of its summer 

 plumage from Norfolk, and have seen the young from the 

 same locality early in July. Mr. Heysham of Carlisle has 

 also recorded the occurrence of a very beautiful male in 

 nearly complete summer plumage, which was met with on 

 Rock Cliff salt-marsh on the 27th of May 1833 : the 

 stomach contained the remains of shrimps and sandhoppers. 

 In the autumn of 1834 a considerable flock frequented the 

 same locality : the specimens killed were young birds of 

 the year. 



During autumn these birds in small flocks are not uncom- 

 mon in various localities. Mr. Thompson says this species 

 is a regular summer visitant to Ireland. It is seen about 

 the same period in Cornwall, Devonshire, and Hampshire. 

 More than twenty were exposed for sale on the same day 

 in Leadenhall market in London, in September 1837. It 

 occurs also during autumn in small flocks in Kent, Norfolk, 

 Durham, and Northumberland. Sir William Jardine has 

 met with it in Dumfries-shire, and it has been seen in small 

 parties on the shores and rocks of Scotland. 



According to M. Nilsson this species visits Sweden, re- 

 maining there from spring to autumn, frequenting the eastern 

 part of Scandinavia, but has not been met with by Mr. 

 Dann in the western parts. The Red Sandpiper of Pen- 

 nant's Arctic Zoology is this species in its summer plum- 

 age, which is there stated to visit the shores of the 

 Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, and especially the mouth of the 

 Don. 



M. Temminck says this bird breeds occasionally in Hol- 

 land, and that the eggs are yellowish white, spotted with 

 dark brown ; but the birds are chiefly seen on their passage 

 in the more southern parts of the European Continent, 



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