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displayed great activity and adroitness, the female twisting 

 and turning to escape the addresses of the male. 



This bird often takes up its abode in the same locality 

 for weeks and months, although at other times, as 

 pointed oat by Mr. Saunders, it frequently shifts its 

 feeding-grounds for no special reason. The late Mr, E. 

 Williams kept it under close observation in the same 

 locality along the River Dodder, co. Dublin, between 

 August and December, 1889 and 1893. He observed it 



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FIG. 4G. GREEN SANDPIPEE. 



wade without any apparent reason, and when beyond its 

 depth, swim like a Water-hen to a shallower spot. On dry 

 land it often stood motionless for a long time, waking up 

 suddenly and starting to feed. 



Mr. Warren has met with it on the same little pond in 

 co. Sligo, during three different years, and Mr. Caton Haigh 

 has made similar observations in North-east Lincolnshire 

 ('Zoologist,' 1900, 1901). 



The Green Sandpiper is not a coast-loving bird, though 

 often resorting to maritime counties ; on its first arrival it 

 may tarry a few days on the sea-shore. Watters records 

 a specimen which was obtained on the slob-lands of the 

 Dublin coast, when consorting with a number of Dunlins 

 and Knots. 

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