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every description — the soft oozy beach, the sand, the gravel, about 

 the Norway-like fiord of the Killeries (Connemara), and the iron- 

 bound coast of Antrim, including the Giant's Causeway itself — 

 its piping note proclaims its presence. 



In the most varied scenery of the sister island, too, the sand- 

 piper has attracted my attention. At Ogwell Pool, in the midst 

 of the savage grandeur of North Wales ; about tiie sweet and 

 lovely Lake of Windermere ; at the softly- gliding Learn, where 

 it meanders through the rich pastures and meadows above the 

 town of Leamington ; at the lively and brawling river which 

 hurries through the bleak and sterile mountain-pass of Glencroe ; 

 and about the gravelly sea-shore at Yentnor, in the Isle of Wight 

 — the garden of England — have I been gratified by beholding 

 it. At the wild and desert-like sandy reaches of the Rhine, 

 below Basle,* the sandpiper has also claimed my admiration, and 

 it was the first bird to welcome me to Greece ; several, with 

 their piping notes, hailing our party as we landed at the noble 

 Bay of Navarino.f 



The Spotted Sandpiper. Totanus macularius, Linn, (sp.) 

 Has been publicly noticed in a few instances, as having been obtained 

 in Ireland ; but the bird erroneously so named by Bewick, which is 

 merely T. Jiypoleucos in a particular state of plumage, was meaut, in 

 the instances which I have investigated, and not the true species. 

 This will probably yet be found visiting the island. It was only first 

 made known as a British bird from the occurrence of a single specimen 

 in England, in September 1839.J A few other individuals have since 

 been met with in that country. The spotted sandpiper is a common 

 bird in the United States of America, moving from the south towards 

 the north to breed, as the nearly allied T. hypoleucos does in Europe ; 

 thus representing the latter species in the Western Hemisphere, 

 within which it is not found, in Norway, Sweden, and Germany, the 

 T. macularius is occasionally observed. 



* My 15. f April 28. % Yarrell, Brit. Birds. 



