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winter it is common on the coasts of Cumberland and 
Lancashire. A few breed in Shetland and many in Orkney. 
They appear to be scarce, at least in summer, on the Outer 
Hebrides. 
TOTANUS CANESCENS (J. F. Gmelin). 
GREENSHANK. 
Mr. W. S. Baily shot a Greenshank near Castletown 
24th January 1889 (Kermode, Y. LZ. M, 1. i. p. 72; 
i. p. 539), and Mr. Unsworth, of Douglas, has, according to 
the same authority, a specimen from the same neighbour- 
hood. Mr. Baily writes me that he has seen the bird at 
Langness on one or two other occasions. It will probably 
be found that the species appears regularly in very 
small numbers. 
The Greenshank is a scarce but regular visitor round the 
Trish coast. At Strangford Lough a few spend nearly the 
whole year. It also visits, very sparingly, the Scottish and — 
English sides of the Irish Sea; Mr. Service thinks that it 
may breed in Galloway. It is found with something of 
the same sparseness in Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer 
Hebrides ; in the two latter it is said to breed, or have 
bred, as it does in the north of the mainland and in Skye. 
[MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS (J. F. Gmelin). 
RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 
Captain H. W. Hadfield writes thus in Zoologist (p. 5251): 
‘ Extract from note-book, Isle of Man, 1847—When snipe- 
shooting in a marsh near the Point of Air (sic) a bird 
