208 scolopacim;. 



in September. They are, consequently, not so restricted to 

 marine localities as in the south of Scotland, where the species 

 has come under the observation of Sir Wm. Jardine. He 

 remarks that " we have never seen them even as stragglers upon 

 our lochs and rivers, as the greenshank and some other maritime 

 Totani frequently are.""* Tins author alludes only to marshes 

 adjoining the sea, as the maritime breeding-places of redshanks in 

 Scotland. As already noticed, they nidify on the shingly beach 

 itself in some parts of Ireland. On the extensive gravelly 

 banks at the mouth of the Stinchar, in Ayrshire, I was told, a 

 few years ago, that they, as well as the oyster- catcher and ring 

 plover, bred. Numbers, annually, form their nests on the 

 gravel, like the ring plover, along the shores of Islay and the 

 neighbouring islets, as I have been assured by those who have 

 gathered their eggs. 



I have rarely obtained examples of this bird in its handsome 

 adult summer plumage, which differs much from that of winter, 

 as well as from that of young birds of the year. 



On the 23rd of July, 1826, I observed a solitary redshank on 

 the beach of the Lago di Garda, in the north of Italy. 



THE GBEEN SANDPIPER 



Totanus ochropus, Linn, (sp.) 

 Tringa „ „ 



Is only known as a rare visitant ; but has occurred at all 

 seasons of the year, 



As it has done in England. It is, however, of much more fre- 

 quent occurrence there than in Ireland. In Scotland, Sir William 

 Jardine remarks that this handsome bird is met with in about 

 equal numbers with the greenshank.f It is far otherwise in 



* Brit, Birds, vol. iii. p. 202. f Ibid., vol. iii. p. 210. 



