in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 435 



shire adjoining Westmoreland, and that he has perfect confidence 

 in his informant. 



Mr. W. Dunbar describes the Whimbrel as plentiful during 

 the breeding-season all along the coast of Sutherland and Caith- 

 ness, and he tells me that it breeds in open moors near the sea. 

 Mr. H. Osborne also marks the Whimbrel as breeding in Caith- 

 ness. It breeds in Orkney and Shetland, but not in the Outer 

 Hebrides. 



ToTANUs cALiDRis [Bechst.). Common Redshank. 



Provinces III. IV. VIILX.-XV1II. 



Subprovinces 7, 8, 10, 11, (12), 19, 20, 22-26, 28-38. 

 Lat. 50°-61°. " Scottish " type, or Northern. 



A few pairs still breed iu Kent and Essex, but the bird is 

 rapidly decreasing in the south, and has almost deserted the fens 

 of the eastern counties, being driven out as its haunts become 

 more and more circumscribed by drainage and cultivation. I 

 have no authority for its breeding in Wales or Lancashire, though 

 the bird can hardly be supposed wanting in Subprovinces 17, 18^ 

 and 21. 



Obs. — The Green Sandpiper [Totanus ochropus) has been 

 recorded by Mr. R. Lubbock (Fauna of Norfolk, p. 75) as having 

 bred in Norfolk, but there was probably some mistake in the 

 observation (c/. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 529). 



Totanus glareola {Linn.). Wood- Sandpiper. 



Provinces IV. XI. XV. ? 



Subprovinces 11, 24, 31 ? 



Lat. 52°-56° or 58°. " Scottish " ? type. Not in Ireland. 



A nest was found by Mr. John Hancock at Prestwich Carr, 

 near Newcastle, June 3, 1853. And my friend Mr. F. Bond 

 tells me that he has some eggs taken in Elginshire, which he 

 considers belong to the Wood-Sandpiper. Messrs. Gurney and 

 Fisher state (Zool. 1323), on Mr. Scales^s authority, that a young 

 bird, of which a figure is given, not yet having entirely lost its 

 down, " was shot at Beachamwell, in Norfolk, and may fairly 

 be supposed to have been hatched near the spot where it was 

 killed.'^ 



