Aug. 



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27th. 



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29th. 



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30th/81st. 



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31st. 



Sept. 



2nd. 



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2nd, 7th & 





8th. 



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;3rd. 



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5th. 



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9th. 



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22nd. 



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Largo Bay (Fife), snaall parties arrived. 



Balgray Dam, three only. 



Tiree (Argjdl), arrivals. 



Tunbvidge Wells (Kent), heard passing at 10.30 p.m. 



Marhury Mere (Cheshire), one seen. 



N.E. Lincolnshire coast, small flocks arrived. 



Dee mouth (Cheshire), large flock of 1000. 

 Topsham (S. Devon), four arrived. 

 N.E. Lincolnshire coast, increase ; Topsham, increase. 

 Langstone Harbour (Hants), eleven arrived (gone on 

 26th). 

 ,, 22nd/23rd. Lancashii'e coast, twenty to thirty caught in flight- 

 nets. 

 „ 23rd. Dee mouth (Cheshire), many hundreds. 

 „ 24th. Balgray Dam, ten. 

 Oct. Gth to 16th. S. Yorkshire coast, small parties seen ; no indication 

 of migration. 

 „ loth & 16th. Cullercoats (Northumberland), twenty flying S. 

 ,, 18th. Weybourne (Norfolk), some seen. 

 „ 19th/20th. Spurn Head Lt. (Yorkshire), one. 

 ,, 29th. Liverpool Bay (Lancashire), 3000 or more. 

 Dec.31s7Jan.lst. AVould Lt.-v. (Norfolk), a flock at 10 p.m. 



THE SANDEELING {Calidris arenaria). 



Sauderlings were first seen on the 19th of July on the Fifeshire coast, 

 whence they were recorded in unusual numbers at frequent intervals up 

 to the 5th of September. In August arrivals took place on the coast of 

 the Isle of Man on the 1st, in Dornoch Firth on the 7th and 15th, at 

 Fair Isle on the 9th and subsequent dates, ou the north coast of Norfolk 

 daily from the 12th, on the Fifeshire coast on the 21st, in Haddington 

 on the 26th and at Aberdeen on the 27th. 



In October single birds were seen at Lowestoft (Suffolk) on the 1st, 

 three on the Lladdington coast on the 2nd, and on the Fifeshire coast on 

 the 14th and 23rd. One was seen in Fair Isle on the 14th of November, 

 three or four at St. Andrews (Fife) on the 19th of December, and a small 

 flock at Aberlady (Haddington) on the 2oth. 



THE COMMON SANDPIPER {Totanmhypoleucus). 



June 24th, Devon, one passing. 



July 1st. Cromarty Firth, an arrival. 



„ 3rd. Largo Bay (Fife), an arrival ; Devon, one. 



