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visitor, but is most frequently seen and obtained about the 

 periods of their vernal and autumnal migration, on their 

 passage to and from those northern localities in which they 

 pass their breeding season. They are to be found most 

 frequently in the London market towards the end of April 

 and in May, their plumage then exhibiting to some extent 

 the darker streaks and spots which mark their summer 

 dress. In Ireland they are seen in autumn, Mr. Thomp- 

 son informs me, in very small parties, but generally singly ; 

 and they are recorded as having been killed in autumn, and 

 sometimes early in winter, in the counties along the line of 

 our southern coast. These birds are occasionally met with 

 in inland counties. Mr. Jesse sent me notice of one that 

 was killed near Ascot Heath, not far from the house of Mr. 

 Davis, the well known hunstman of her Majesty's stag 

 hounds; and Rusticus has mentioned one that was shot 

 near Grodalming. Specimens have also been killed in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire. In the vicinity of 

 Carlisle, Mr. Heysham says that during the month of 

 August 1832, three or four of these birds were occasionally 

 seen on Brugh, and Rockcliff salt marshes, and on the 25th 

 a young male and female were procured. These two birds 

 had been feeding upon Smelts and Shrimps. A third speci- 

 men, which was killed about ten days earlier in the same 

 month, on the banks of the river Eden, near Botchardby, 

 had recently swallowed a bearded Loche. 



Mr. Macgillivray furnished the following notice of the 

 habits of the Greenshank as observed in the Hebrides to his 

 friend Mr. Audubon.* The Greenshank is seen in the 

 outer Hebrides early in spring, and generally departs in 

 October, although I have observed individuals there in 

 November. Previous to the commencement of the breeding 



* Ornithological Biography, vol. iii. p. 483. 



