114 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



Alfred Roberts, of the Museum at Scarborough, has 

 had the Green Sandpiper (T. ochropus) several times 

 from the neighbourhood of Hunmanby, in all cases 

 shot in June. The keeper there says they breed in 

 old Crows' nests; he has seen them come off from 

 the nests." 



A peculiarity in this bird is its strong semiaromatic 

 smell, resembling musk, and very similar to what is 

 observed in the Fulmar Petrel. 



171. TOTANUS GLAREOLA (Linnaeus). Wood Sand- 

 piper. 



I have never met with the Wood Sandpiper in 

 North Lincolnshire ; nor have I any notice of its oc- 

 currence of late years either in this county or in 

 Holder ness. 



172. TOTANUS HYPOLEUCUS (Linnaeus) . Common 

 Sandpiper. 



Provincial. Summer Snipe. 



Not uncommon on our streams and drains in the 

 spring, where it arrives in pairs about the fourth week 

 in April *, leaving again about the end of May or the 

 commencement of June. I have no record of its ever 

 having remained to nest. Is seen again in the early 

 autumn, in August and September, about our marsh 

 drains, but is at this season always less plentiful than 

 in the spring. 



* In 1867, April 22nd; 1868, April 23rd; 1869, April 22nd. 



