SPOTTED REDSHANK—GREENSHANK. 
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was prepared to start, I was called to go down to the river 
for two 'curious birds.' I loaded my double gun, and 
crawled under cover of a heap of stones near enough to 
bring down one sitting and the other flying with the 
second barrel. They proved to be a god wit and a spotted 
redshank, birds which I had often killed on the coast, but 
never before heard of in this part of the country." 
Bell records another in his edition of White's Selborne :^ 
" A beautiful specimen . . . was killed at Oakhanger, 
and brought to me on August 30th, 185 1. It was in an 
interesting state of plumage — the breast and whole under- 
part sprinkled with a mixture of grey and white, the back 
blackish, spotted." This bird is still in the Alton Museum. 
Mr. Hart's specimens were procured in the neighbour- 
hood of Christchurch, and are dated June ist, 1871 ; Septem- 
ber 6th, 1875 ; September 7th, 1877 ; December, 1880 ; and 
October 17th, 1888. 
This bird does not appear to have been observed in the 
Island. 
245. Totanus canescens, Greenshank. 
A spring and autumn visitor. 
This bird is found upon our coasts during migration, 
either singly or in small numbers, and more rarely inland. 
Our oldest records belong to the Isle of Wight. Bury 
mentions one shot on a pond at Winston, in the parish of 
Godshill, in 1 841, and another killed at Newton, in August, 
1844. He met with it every autumn on the mud-flats. 
Mr. Willett has a specimen dated October 26th, 1891, from 
the island. 
' Vol. I., p. 59. 
