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THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER IN YORKSHIRE. 
WALTER GREAVES, 
Hebden Bridge. 
In a list of the ‘ Vertebrate Fauna of the Hebden Bridge 
District,’ which the Hebden Bridge Literary and Scien- 
tific Society recently published, I recorded two occur- 
rences of the Spotted Sandpiper (Totanus macularius), 
one within the county, and one slightly over the boundary, in 
Lancashire. Repeating the latter record in a ‘ List of the 
Birds of Todmorden,’ in the ‘ Lancashire Naturalist,’ it came 
to the notice of Mr. F. J. Stubbs, Stepney Museum, who 
added that further particulars would be acceptable. I 
thereupon procured the skin of the example obtained in 
Yorkshire, and paid a visit to the gamekeeper, who I was assured 
possessed the Lancashire specimen, obtained by himself on 
the moors about Cliviger. The latter, on inspection, proved 
to be a good example of the much commoner Green Sandpiper 
(T. ochropus), but the skin of the Yorkshire bird I submitted 
to Mr. Stubbs, the result being that my record was confirmed. 
Of the five alleged occurrences of this species in Yorkshire 
(‘ Birds of Yorkshire’, p. 628), one record on the Tees in 1845, 
Naturalist, 
