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April 1865 Lord Lilford saw it in the Manzanares, near Madrid. Major Irby records it as 

 " occasional in winter in both Andalucia and Marocco, but not in any numbers ; seen as late as 

 the 22nd of May, 1869." In Portugal, Professor Barboza du Bocage says, it is common in winter. 

 In Algeria it only occurs during migration, according to Loche. From Madeira Mr. Vernon 

 Harcourt has recorded it. Mr. Wright says that in Malta it " arrives in March and September, 

 and is seen occasionally in June, July, and August, also in April and May." In the Balearic 

 Islands von Homeyer met with it; and in Sardinia Count Salvadori records it as occurring in 

 autumn and winter, but it is not common. The same gentleman writes to us : — " This bird is not 

 abundant in Italy ; but stragglers are found here every season, more frequently, however, during 

 the spring migration. It frequents the banks of rivers and ponds." Dr. Giglioli, writing from 

 Pisa, says that he has seen it in that neighbourhood in February, and it is said to stay the winter 

 there. Malherbe says it arrives in Sicily at the same time as the Ruff. Von der Miihle writes : — 

 " From September to May it is not uncommon on all the swampy meadows bordering the coasts 

 of Greece," and Lindermayer observes : — " During the sequinoctial gales considerable numbers 

 come to our shores, and remain long with us, so that we may infer that its breeding-haunts are 

 not far distant. During the winter months many remain on the islands of the Archipelago. 

 They are less numerous on their migration back in September." Lord Lilford says it occurs in 

 small numbers in Epirus and Corfu in winter and early spring. Messrs. Elwes and Buckley, in 

 their paper on the ' Birds of Turkey,' remark : — " We observed the Greenshank several times, 

 but never more than two or three together." Mr. Robson sends us a note : — " This species is 

 scarce in Turkey, in Asia, and Europe; a few odd birds are shot in the spring and autumn 

 migration, and single specimens obtained at intervals by sportsmen during the winter. They 

 are found by the sides of rivers and in the neighbourhood of lakes." Dr. Otto Finsch says it is 

 found nesting in the Balkans. 



At Smyrna it was observed by the late Mr. Strickland in winter, where it was rare. From 

 Trebizond it was sent by Mr. Keith E. Abbott. In Southern Russia von Nordmann says it is 

 " only found during the spring and autumn migrations. The first arrive here in the month of 

 March." Eversmann procured it on his journey to Buchara and during his travels in Southern 

 Siberia. Dr. Radde found it during the autumn migration at Kulussutajefsk, but says that it 

 certainly does not pass the Tarei-nor on its migration northward in the spring. The following is 

 the record of Dr. von Middendorff: — " Not seen in the north. Breeds commonly on the western 

 slope of the Stanowoj mountains (on the 12th of May on the lakes of Markolj). From here 

 it was often observed on all the large morasses in the mountains, and also on the sea-coast, and 

 settled, making a great outcry, on the tops of the low trees on the edge of the morasses. I last 

 saw it late in August near the mountains bordering Mantschuria." Dr. L. von Schrenck states 

 that this bird was generally procured on the Amoor in the late summer, being then in immature 

 plumage. Steller procured it in Kamtschatka and the Kurile Islands. 



The Leiden Museum has a specimen collected by Burger in Japan. Mr. R. Swinhoe says 

 that it is general in China in winter ; and in the account of his late visit to Hainan he writes : — 

 " Often seen and many shot. On the Hoehone marsh in flocks of thousands. One specimen 

 bagged had the underparts stained pink; it had probably been paddling about in the slough 

 from some dyeing-establishment. The Chinese in Hainan often stain then- white poultry with 



