226 GREEN SANDPIPER 
creeps over the sloping weedy surface like a Purple Sand- 
piper, and I have observed it on the rocks of Peel Castle 
Island, and of the Calf. JI have never seen it on the sands. 
It usually appears in pairs or family parties, never in 
flocks. As mentioned under a former heading, the occur- 
rence of numbers of small shore birds at lights, by what-— 
ever name they may have been returned to the British 
Association Committee, should be referred to other species. 
On the 5th May 1885 two are recorded, however, at 
Langness, the identification apparently sanctioned by the 
Committee’s representatives. 
The species is common in Ireland, breeding especially on — 
the larger waters, like Lough Neagh; in Galloway it breeds 
on all the streams and lakes, as also all over the hill 
districts of Cumberland and Lancashire, and in Anglesea. 
It is a summer resident in Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer 
Hebrides, but usually more scarce than on the mainland. 
In Great Britain generally it is a northern and western 
breeding bird. 
HELODROMAS OCHROPUS (Linn.). GREEN 
SANDPIPER. 
One in the Orrisdale collection was shot in 1883 
(Y. L. M, iii. p. 539). Mr. J.C. Crellin obtained this bird at 
the Pollies in Ballaugh, a pretty and interesting little pond, 
which lies surrounded by gorse bushes and fringed with 
bogbean and royal fern in a circular hollow among the 
fields. A curious feature of the pool is that it is crossed 
by a hedge of firm soil, planted with willows and brambles, 
and with a beaten track in the middle. 
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