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190 BRITISH BIRDS. [VoL. XI. 
identification to Mr. G. Tickner, which had been found by a 
boy between Sandford and Nuneham, close to the river bank. 
Being too much incubated for blowing, they had been boiled. 
These eggs were undoubtedly Sandpiper’s: one is still in 
Mr. Tickner’s possession, and has been seen by me. 
However, in 1910, after considerable search, Mr. Tickner 
found a pair breeding at Nuneham, and on May 6th flushed 
the bird from a nest with two eggs on the Oxfordshire side 
of the river. In 1912, he again found another nest on May 13th, 
with two eggs, between Pinkhill Lock and Bablockhythe, 
close to the river which separates Oxfordshire from Berkshire. 
There is good reason to believe that the birds have bred on 
other occasions at both places, as Mr. Tickner has seen them 
accompanied by two and three obviously immature young 
in July. F. C. R. JoURDAIN. 
GREEN SANDPIPER IN KING’S CO. 
Iv may be of interest to record that I identified an adult © 
Green Sandpiper (Z'otanus ochropus) seen on the wing on 
Ballyheishall Bog, near Edenderry, King’s Co., Ireland, 
on November 15th, 1917. I have not seen any of these 
birds in this locality hitherto, and Mr. Ussher (Birds of 
Ireland, p. 297) gives no record for this species for King’s Co. 
Heven M. Rarr Kerr. 
LITTLE AUKS IN KENT, SUSSEX, BUCKS 
AND HANTS. 
In the Field (Nov. 24th, 1917), a Little Auk (Alle alle) was 
reported by: Captain Somerset Webb as having been picked 
up alive but exhausted, at Woodchurch, Kent, on November 
llth, 1917. Mr. H. Scarlett (loc. cit.) also records another 
bird, picked up on the downs above Firle, Sussex, on the 
same day. Dr. Hartert informs us that a third was found 
also alive in Sir Thomas Barlow’s garden near Wendover, 
Bucks, on November 11th, but died the following day, as 
recorded in the Bucks Herald; while a fourth was picked 
up dead on the Halton (Weston Turville) Reservoir, Bucks, by 
Sergeant J. W. S. Toms, R.F.C., on November 17th, which 
had evidently been dead for several days. This bird is now 
in the Tring Museum. Mr. R. Edward Coles also sent us 
some remains of a fifth specimen, found by him at New 
Milton, Hants, about a mile and a half from the sea, on 
November 13th. The greater part of this bird had been eaten, 
apparently by a hawk, but enough remained to enable 
Dr. Hartert to identify it with certainty. Evidently all 
these birds must have wandered inland about the same 
time, probably on the same day. F. C. R. JOURDAIN. 
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