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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
It was an unfortunate statement of the late Mr. A. G. 
More, in the " Ibis" of 1865, shortly after the publication 
of Wise's book, that this bird was " rapidly decreasing in 
the south " It may have been true of Surrey and Kent, 
but certainly not of Hampshire. 
Mr. Stares informs us that it nests in two or three 
localities in the south-east corner of the county ; he found 
young birds in the down in some marshes near Fareham, 
on June 26th, 1893,^ eggs in the same neighbourhood 
on April 24th, 1897.2 
It is common on all our coasts in the winter, and has 
been met with at Alton (Curtis), Liphook,^ and Wolmer, 
(Irby), in the latter case in the month of August. 
In the Isle of Wight, Bury considered it only a winter 
visitor, and More a "bird of double passage," but since 
their time it has certainly become resident in the Island. 
Dr. Cowper writes that several pairs nest in old Brading 
Harbour, but that probably it did not breed in the Island 
until the draining of the harbour, and Mr. Poole, of Shank- 
lin, gives us information to the same effect. Mr. Victor 
Willett has obtained a specimen from St. Catherine's 
Lighthouse, on August 20th, 1892. 
245. Totmvm fuscus. Spotted Redshank. 
An occasional visitor to the coasts of the mainland, on 
the spring and autumn migration, rarely occurring inland. 
Hawker'^ shot one at Longparish on September 7th, 
181 5 : "This morning," he says, " an hour or two before I 
' "Zoologist." August, 1S94. 
3 " Birds of Surrey." 
-Smith, "Zoologist.' March, 1898. 
^ " Diary." 
