Jan. V. 



2tli/13ili. 



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leth. 



March 



30th. 



April 



1st. 



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11th. 



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15th. 



173 



May 11th. Menai Straits (Anglesey), 2 seen, 



„ 12th to 20th. Peutland Skerries (Orkney), seen in varying uumberi; 

 daily. 



THE SANDEELING {Calidris arenaria). 



Leman and Ower Lt.-v. (Norfolk), 40. 

 Marston (Bedford), one shot. 

 Dimgeness (Kent), 40, just arrived. 

 Dungeness (increase). 

 Eye Harbour (Sussex), an arrival. 

 Marbury Mere (Cheshire), one passing. 



THE GREEN SANDPIPER ( Totanus ochvopus). 



Green Sandpipers were reported singly or in pairs from several localities 

 in Cheshire between the 20th and 27th of January, on the 10th of March 

 and the 3rd of April. One was seen on the Trent (Staffordshire) on 

 various days during January and up to the 6th of February. Single 

 birds were recorded from Romney Marsh (Kent) on the 11th and 26th 

 of April, from Norton Fitzwarren (Somersetshire) on the 12th, and from 

 Wells (Somersetshire) on many days between the 20th of April and the 

 19th of May. 



THE REDSHANK {Totanus calidris). 



Redshanks began to disappear rapidly from the coast in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Sussex and the Hampshire border during January, and by 

 the 31st their numbers were hardly five per cent, of what they had been 

 in the first half of the winter. A slight increase took place during the 

 cold weather ending February 6th, and a further slight increase took 

 place on the 9th. 



The winter-residents in the neighbourhood of Plymouth left during 

 the last week in March ; they had all deserted Cornwall by the 31st and 

 the Devon coast by the 2nd of April. 



Redshanks had returned as summer-residents to Staffordshire on the 

 12th of March, to tlie Sussex marshes by the 14th, to Warwickshire by 

 the 17th and to Suffolk by the 29th. They were seen flying N. in 

 Somerset on the 26th, and were passing in Cheshire on the 29th and 

 30th. A pair were seen near Clifton (Derbyshire), a new locality, on 

 the 7th of April, one was passing W. in Hertfordshire on the 18th, and 

 two arrived and remained a day at the Pentland Skerries (Orkney) on 

 the 8th of May. The Redshanks breeding in localities in Stafford- 

 shire and Northumberland were reported as being more than usually 

 numerous. 



