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THE COMMON SANDPIPER. 



Totanus liypoleucus (L.). 



This species appears to have arrived along the whole of the 

 south coast, but chiefly on the western half. 



An example observed in Lancashire on the 5th of March 

 had probably wintered in the country. The next record was 

 received from Suffolk on the 3rd of April, and after that date 

 there appears to have been a small immigration of birds on 

 the 10th and 12th, which passed rapidly through the 

 western counties reaching Argyllshire on the 13th and 

 Northumberland on the 14th. On the 16th a slight increase 

 was observed in Monmouthshire, and passing birds were seen 

 in Sussex and Berkshire on the following day ; others were 

 noted in Carnarvonshire and on the 18th numbers were 

 recorded going north in Lancashire. From that date until 

 the end of the third week in May the migratory movement 

 continued throughout the country, more especially through 

 Wales and the western counties ; the bulk of the records 

 were, however, from the inland or more northerly counties, 

 so that it was not easy to trace the successive arrivals 

 of the migrants. Between the 25th and 29th of April 

 there was evidence of arrivals on the western portion of the 

 south coast and again on the 4th and 19th of May, while 

 migrants were noted at the Caskets light, Channel Islands, 

 on the night of the 7 th. 



Common Sandpipers were nesting in Cumberland on the 

 2nd of May and nests with eggs were found in Yorkshire on 

 the 4th, in Derbyshire and Cheshire on the 5th, in Radnor- 

 shire on the 10th, and in Carnarvonshire on the 13th. 



