district to which I am referring this bird is generally 

 known as either " Solitary " or " Summer-Snipe." 



From my own experience I am inclined to think that 

 this species finds its living principally on soft muddy 

 spots, and is comparatively seldom to be found fre- 

 quenting banks of shingle or sand. It exhibits a 

 remarkable partiality for certain ponds in our pasture- 

 lands, and where one or two Green Sandpipers are 

 found in August or September at these pools we almost 

 always find one or two at the same season every year. 



It is not very often that circumstance permits a 

 close observation of these birds, as they are very wary ; 

 but I have once or twice had. the opportunity of watching 

 one at close quarters ; they appeared to me on these 

 occasions to be less constantly in motion than the 

 Common Sandpiper, and, after a close examination of a 

 patch of mud and many snaps at flying insects, the 

 birds, in the instances to which 1 allude, retired to a 

 clod of earth on the pond-bank, and drawing up one leg 

 remained motionless, except for an occasional jerk of 

 the tail, for a considerable time. When alarmed, the 

 Green Sandpiper darts up to a great height in the air 

 with a very vigorous flight, and constantly utters a shrill 

 trisyllabic whistle, alarming all the Snipes that may be 

 in the neighbourhood, and has often caused me much 

 vexation on this account ; the present bird, however, 

 generally makes off to a distance at once, and from the 

 Snipe-shooting point of view is not such a nuisance as 

 the Redshank, which flits round the marsh from which 

 it rises with constant outcry, as if it was the appointed 

 sentinel of the Snipes. 



