VOL. vm.] NOTES. 101 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER IN SUSSEX. 

 On July 3rd, 1914, a specimen of Bartram's Sandpiper 

 [Bartramia longicauda) was picked up at Bopeep, St. 

 Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, by a workman. It had flown 

 against the telephone-wires which run along the side of 

 the marsh adjoining the road. It was badly damaged 

 about the liead and neck. Thinking it was a Snipe, the 

 man gave it to a publican at St. Leonards, and I saw it 

 in the flesh the same day. It proved to be a male. 



H. W. Ford-Lindsay. 



REDSHANKS BREEDING INLAND IN KENT. 



Since reading Colonel Feilden's article on tlie recent nesting 

 of Redslianks in the Rother Valley, Sussex (Vol. VII., p. 330), 

 it has occurred to me that a similar inctnsion of breeding 

 Redshanks is taking place in mid-Kent, on uplands sloping 

 to the valley of the river Beult, at Headcorn, a tributary 

 of the Medway. 



On April 12th, 1913, while riding in the mid-Kent Point 

 to Point races at Sutton Valence, I noticed a pair of 

 Redshanks which by their actions were evidently breeding 

 in a rushy meadow at the far end of the course. 



On April 18th, 1914, I unfortunately did not reach the 

 rushy field, but a friend who went to investigate flushed 

 several pahs in it, all of ^\'hich showed anxiety. 



About the same time Mr. A. E. Cheesman, of Sissinghurst 

 Castle, Cranbrook, told me that a pair of Redshanks were 

 visiting a rush-covered corner of a meadow there — that 

 he had had all the sheep removed, and his men had been 

 told to keep out of the meadow. These some\A'hat drastic 

 measures were successful, for on May 3rd I found the 

 nest \\\t\\ four eggs slightly incubated — these have since 

 hatched. 



This nest is twenty miles from the sea, far from rivers of 

 any size, and surrounded by cultivated land. 



The fact that many birds were collected by Boyd Alexander 

 throughout a number of years in this district, and that no 

 mention of the Redshanks nesting nearer than Romney 

 Marsh appears in his notes, is sufficient evidence that 

 these birds are gradually extending their breeding -range over 

 the interior of this county a^\'ay from the marshes and 

 river- valleys. Robert E. Cheesman. 



COMMON GULL BREEDING IN CUMBERLAND. 

 On May 30th, 1914, on the Cumberland side of the Sol way 

 Firth, Messrs. T. L. Johnston and James Storey found 



