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found them to be in prime condition ; adults, I should say, and 

 both females. The other instance relates to a bird killed near 

 Brampton on the 22d of January 1846. 



WOOD SANDPIPER. 



Totanus glareola (Gmel.). 



The only specimens of this Sandpiper that appear to have 

 been procured in any part of Lakeland belonged to a party of 

 five, which visited Edenhall in August 1867. The present 

 head-keeper, Mr. Eaine, has often spoken to me of the birds, 

 two of which were shot at a small rushy pond, since drained. 

 Mr. W. Duckworth was formerly under the impression that he 

 once met with the Wood Sandpiper in the breeding season, the 

 actions of the bird closely coinciding with the description fur- 

 nished by the late Mr. John Hancock of Wood Sandpipers 

 observed at two localities in Northumberland. I mention this 

 only in order that the possibility of the Wood Sandpiper being 

 found hereafter nesting on some remote moss in Westmorland 

 may not be entirely lost sight of. 



REDSHANK. 



Totanus calidris (L. ). 



The Eedshank is mentioned about three times in the Naworth 

 Accounts. Possibly it may have been lumped also with other 

 Waders under the title of ' sea larkes,' which appears frequently ; 

 at any rate, the fact that it is locally alluded to as the ' Eed- 

 shank e ' as early as the seventeenth century, confers a certain 

 amount of respectability on this common Wader. During the 

 winter months a few Eedshanks may always be found feeding 

 on the sandy shores of the Solway Firth, but I have never seen 

 larger flocks than of thirty individuals on the Cumberland 

 coast, and even that number is above the average ; it is more 

 usual to find them haunting the muddy creeks that bisect the 

 salt marshes in twos and threes, not that the species is scarce, 

 but that these birds feed sporadically. When rambling along 

 the shores of Walney Channel on October 14, 1890, with Mr. 



