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EVIDENCE FOR 'THE BREEDING OF THE GREEN 
SANDPIPER IN WESTMORLAND IN 1917. 
BY 
H. W. ROBINSON, M.B.O.U. 
As there is no authentic record of the Green Sandpiper (T'ringa 
ochropus) nesting in Great Britain, the foliowing details 
regarding the breeding of a pair of these birds in Levens Park, 
Westmorland, during the past summer (1917), will be of 
interest. On June 24th, Waterhouse the gamekeeper, a 
first-class field naturalist, observed a wader in the Park 
which he could not name. He saw it there practically every 
day until about the third week in July, after which he 
thought that it had departed. It was very wild and never 
uttered a call of any sort. He described it to me as some- 
thing like a Redshank but very dark on the back, and with 
a large white patch on the rump like a House-Martin. On 
Avgust 5th, whilst in company with Waterhouse, the Rev. 
K. U. Savage (a fellow-member of the B.O.U.) and others, 
I was able to identify the bird, which flew close past us 
uttering the characteristic call of the species twice, as a Green 
Sandpiper. 
Up to this time the pair had never been seen together and 
I hardly expected them to be nesting there, but on the morning 
of August 11th I received a wire from Mr. Savage : ** Sandpiper 
has nested, young running.” On the afternoon of August 10th 
Waterhouse suw both birds together for the first time, calling 
loudly whilst flying close round him in a great state of 
excitement, and, looking on the gravel bed, he discovered, 
ruoning about, two young, almost fully feathered. On 
Sunday, August 12th, they were so far advanced as to take 
jumps into the air in their first attempts at flight, and were 
still there on the 15th. The young birds with the parents 
were seen several times by Waterhouse and the landlord of 
the hotel at Heversham, and on one occasion by another, 
whose name I am not at liberty to mention. As the young 
could not fly they must have been hatched in the Park or 
thereabouts. The River Kent where it flows through Levens 
Park is typical Green Sandpiper ground, one bank consisting 
of marshy hanging woods. 
Saunders, in his Jllustrated Manual of British Birds, states 
with regard to this species (2nd ed., p. 609): “* From some 
of our streams it is indeed seldom absent, except during June 
and July; and even in those months single birds, pairs, or 
small parties have been noticed in Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk 
