WOOD-SANDPIPER. 



TOTANUS GLAREOLA [J. F. Gmelin). 



Tringa glareola, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 677 (1788). 

 Totanus glareola, Naum. viii. p. 78 ; Macg. iv. p. 346 ; 



Hewitson, ii. p. 330 ; Ymr. ed. 4, iii. p. 463 ; Dresser, 



viii. p. 143. 



Chevalier sylvain, Frencli; Bruch-Wasserlaufer, German; 

 Andario, Spanish ; Carregadet, Valencian. 



This bird is an irregular but by no means a very 

 uncommon visitor to England and Scotland, and there 

 is good evidence of its having bred on several occasions 

 in the former and once in the latter kingdom, although 

 we have only one authentic record of the actual finding 

 of an occupied nest in Great Britain ; this nest, con- 

 taining eggs, was discovered by the late John Hancock 

 on June 3rd, 1S53, in Prestwick Car, not far from 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the adult male was shot at the 

 same time. My acquaintance with this Sandpiper is, 

 with one exception, confined to foreign countries. In 

 Andalucia we found it exceedingly common in April and 

 May on the borders of the great marshes of the Lower 

 Guadalquivir; it was also common about the Ionian 



