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Ireland, where one hundred greenshanks might be reckoned for 

 every green sandpiper. 



According to Mr. Tenipleton's journal, it has been seen four 

 times at Cranmore, his residence near Belfast, — twice previous 

 to 1800, once in that year, and in 1801. At "Brick-holes," 

 Mays-bank, close to that town, one was shot early in the winter 

 of 1822. At Stranmillis, about a mile distant, another was 

 killed during frost and snow in the winter of 1823. * More 

 lately, a bird believed to be of this species (but which was not 

 obtained) was observed to frequent Conswater, in the vicinity of 

 the town, for some time. In the winter of 1836-7, a taxider- 

 mist there had a green sandpiper sent to him in a fresh state 

 from some of the northern counties. One, in the Belfast Museum, 

 was killed by a person when snipe-shooting, in a bog between 

 the river Bann and Rathfriland, county of Down.t A recent 

 adult bird shot in the neighbourhood of Antrim, on the 25th of 

 August, 1847, came under my notice ; its stomach contained 

 water-beetles, specimens of Cypris, &c. 



A green sandpiper was shot in the month of October (?) about 

 the year 1829, at Clontarf, near Dublin; — another, which I saw 

 in 1833, had been killed a few years previously, and sent in a 

 recent state to the metropolis. Mr. W. S. Wall (bird-preserver) 

 informed me, in 1833, that, within the preceding seven or eight 

 years, three fresh specimens, procured near Dublin, had been sent 

 to him. Subsequently, one was shot atMalahide by Mr. Warren. 

 On the 5th November, 1846, a recently-killed bird was purchased 

 of a hawker in the metropolis. On the 17th of January, 1838, 

 I saw (previous to its being skinned) a beautiful adult female 

 which had been killed in QueenVcounty ; its stomach contained 

 the remains of worms and a Phgsa foutinalis — the latter proving 

 that it had been feeding in fresh water. In the month of Feb- 

 ruary, 1836, one was killed about five miles from Clonmel.J 



* Rev. G. M. Black. 



f The dimensions of this bird agree, in every part, with the description in 

 Jenyris's ' Manual.' 



% Mr. It. Davis. * 



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