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19th of May, 1859, being then in the full breeding plumage : a most 

 remarkable and beautiful bird. 



Turnstone. Occurred at Bembridge in September, 1857, and again 

 on the 31st of March, 1858. 



Sanderling. Has been several times obtained at Bembridge about 

 raid-winter. It usually keeps apart in small parties of five or six, but 

 is also occasionally associated with the large flocks of dunlins and ring 

 dotterells (here called " ox birds "). Mr. Rogers considered the san- 

 derling rare at Freshwater ; he obtained a specimen on the 20th of 

 December, 1859. 



Squacco Heron. A single bird of this scarce species was shot at 

 St. Helen's, on the 19th of May, 1858; and was taken, still alive, to 

 to Mr. Beazley, of Ryde. When first seen it was described as pecking 

 about on the sea beach, near the Old Church sea mark ; and when 

 disturbed it did not fly far, but alighted near some tame ducks upon 

 the village green, where a shot was obtained without much difficulty. 

 The bird has now passed into the collection of Mr. W. Borrer, of 

 Cowfold. 



Spoonhill. Was shot at Newtown, November, 1845. Another was 

 seen during a flood in Sandown Marshes, January, 1849. 



Whimbrel. Appears regularly in May, when it associates with the 

 bartailed godwits, it is again seen towards the middle of August and 

 in September ; but I cannot remember to have met with it in mid- 

 winter. 



Redshank. Is, with the oystercatcher, a bird of double passage, 

 and but rarely seen in Brading Harbour. 



Green Sandpiper. Mr. Rogers assures me that the green sand- 

 piper does not breed at Yarmouth, and those seen in the early autumn 

 are probably migrants that have just led their young brood across 

 from the mainland ; but more commonly the bird is a late autumn 

 visitor. One was shot early in December, 1859. 



Common Sandpiper. Is known to frequent during summer the 

 shingly beach at the foot of the Freshwater Clifls and in Tollands Bay ; 

 though its nest has not yet been found, Mr. Rogers is confident that 

 it breeds in these localities, diff'erent though they be from its usual 

 haunts at the season. A few stray birds may occasionally be met with 

 till quite the end of September, and I have shot the common sandpiper 

 so late as the 27th of October, but they mostly leave us long before 

 the latter date. 



Greenshank. Has occurred several times in Brading Harbour, at 



