154 GREEN SANDPIPER. 



In Norfolk they occur in some numbers both on the coast 

 and in the inland marshy districts; one was shot near Lynn, 

 the beginning of January, 1853. A few well-authenticated 

 instances have been recorded of its breeding in this county. 

 One was obtained by L. H. Irby, Esq., from Saham Tony, in 

 Norfolk, killed near there June 14th., 1853. 



They are mostly seen with us in winter, and I am inclined 

 to believe do not altogether leave the country in summer, but 

 only are less noticed from their resorting then to the most 

 sequestered places, there to build. 



Specimens have been shot in Cambridgeshire, in May and 

 August. One was shot, as recorded by the Rev. Leonard 

 Jenyns, in the Isle of Ely, between Downharn and the 

 Hundred-foot River, on the 28th. of August, 1821. A party 

 of five were seen one summer in Suffolk, near Levington; 

 other six in Norfolk, near Attleburgh. Four young were 

 hatched on the estate of Sir Thomas Beevor, in 1829; one, 

 also a young bird, near G-odalming, Surrey; and some young 

 broods, with their parents, were seen near Yarmouth, in the 

 Isle of Wight, the first week of August, 1837. Mr. Selby 

 mentions his having met with them by small rills on the 

 moors near Twizell, in Northumberland, in August; another 

 was also shot in the same county; and two, a male and 

 female, were killed by John Murray, Esq., of Murraythwaite, 

 in Dumfriesshire, near that place in the spring of 1829. 



One of these birds, a male, was shot by R. A. Julian, Esq., 

 Senior, on the River Erme, near Plymouth, in Devonshire, 

 on the 15th. of August, 1849; and one, a female, by Mr. 

 R. A. Julian, Junior, on the banks of the Plym, on the 

 17th. of August, 1850; also a young one, July 31st., 1851, 

 at Crabtree, near the same place. One in Cornwall, near 

 Falmouth, by J. Passingham, Esq., August 28th., 1847; and 

 a pair were obtained near St. Keyme, East Looe. Others, 

 the Hon. T. L. Powys has informed me, used to frequent, in 

 August, the River Nene, near Lilford, Northamptonshire; a 

 few occur most winters about Brighthampton, near Witney, 

 Oxfordshire. 



In Ireland a pair, male and female, were procured in the 

 county of Kildare, in October. 1846. 



About the end of April or beginning of May the Green 

 Sandpiper moves northwards, and by the end of July begins 

 to retrace its way to the regions from whence it had come, 

 which movement continues till the beginning of September. 



