410 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
margins in the bed of the brook, especially at a bend devoid of 
trees, the Green Sandpiper, Totawus ochropus, might be found 
every spring and autumn; and more rarely the Wood Sandpiper, 
Totanus glareola, and Temminck’s Stint, Tringa Temminckit. 
On September 4th, 1869, I shot a nice specimen of the last- 
named little bird there, and also a Greenshank, Totanus glottis ; 
and on that date, at 6 a.m., I counted seven different species of 
shore birds there, seeing besides those just mentioned, the 
Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 
and Heron. 
“Tn ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1848, p. 102, will be found a List, by 
Mr. Bond, of Waterfowl met with at Kingsbury Reservoir. He 
enumerates fifty-seven species, and adds that he has not 
included one which was not thoroughly well identified, and, 
indeed, of most of them he had himself shot and preserved 
specimens, which I have seen many a time and oft. But our 
rambles were not confined to Kingsbury Reservoir and the Brent. 
We visited the Hampstead and Highgate Woods, in those days 
a rare place for insects, and for some of the more or less uncom- 
mon small birds, such as the Wood Wren, Pied Flycatcher, 
Hawfinch, and Spotted Woodpeckers. We visited Golders 
Green, and the lower part of Hampstead Heath, getting many a 
Snipe and Jack Snipe there in the early morning. Along the 
brook at Colin Deep Lane our dogs were sure to find and hunt a 
Moorhen, and Stanmore Common and Bushy Heath supplied our 
collections with splendid Wheatears and Stonechats in full 
plumage, and the rarer Dartford Warbler. We shot over four 
parishes, including a bare open tract lying between Kingsbury, 
Kenton, and Edgeware, known as Hungry Downs, where 
Golden Plover and Peewits came in winter, and the Dotterel, 
Eudromias morinellus, appeared in spring and autumn. One of 
the last-named stands, stuffed, before me as I write, a memento 
of byegone days, when, with our guns and dogs, we were out 
from morning till night. We each had a couple of spaniels, and 
IT had in addition an excellent red Irish setter, which I reared 
frcm a pup, and broke to retrieve, and which would fetch a duck 
out of the water in cold weather as well as any ordinary retriever. 
This dog once brought me a wounded Jack Snipe which I had 
shot, and carried it so completely within his closed mouth that I 
thought he had come back without it ; but on reaching the spot 
