NOTES. 

 SPOTTED SANDPIPER IN SUSSEX. 



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A female Spotted Sandpiper (Toianus macularius) was shot 

 by Mr. Ayling, at Shoreham, Sussex, on November 27th, 1908* 

 It was seen in the tiesh by Dr. H. Langton, Chairman of the 

 Museum Committee, Brighton, and by the Curator. It is in 

 immature plumage. 



J. B. Nichols. 



By the kindness of Mr. Nichols we are enabled to give a 

 reproduction of a photograph of part of the wing of this bird. 



It will be seen that the dark brown sub-terminal band on the 

 secondary wing-feathers is even and well marked on all the 

 feathers, whereas in the Common Sandpiper {Totanus hypo- 

 leucus) the band in the eighth and ninth secondaries is broken, 

 and these feathers are usually irregularly marked with brown 

 and sometimes have scarcely any marking at all. The speci- 

 men above recorded is spotted on some of the ventral 

 feathers, but nowhere else on the underside. — H.F.W.] 



Rare Birds on the Isle of May (Firth op Forth). — This 

 island was again visited (c/. Vol. I., p. 295, Vol. II., p. 346) 

 in the autumn of 1909 by the Misses L. J. Rintoul and E. V. 



