REDSHANK 227 
Of sixty-nine recorded Irish occurrences, three took place 
in Down, and six in Antrim. It has been found some half- 
dozen times in Kirkcudbrightshire, and is recorded as a 
scarce autumn visitor in north-western England. It is 
unrecorded from the outer Scottish isles except once 
(South Uist). It is most plentiful in the eastern counties 
of Britain. 
TOTANUS CALIDRIS (Linn.). REDSHANK. 
Manx, Gob/an-marrey (Cr.)=beaked (bird) of the sea. 
In 1862 Dr. Crellin mentions this species (in lit. to 
A. G. More) as not ascertained to nest in Man. Thirty or 
forty years ago, Mr. Kermode says, the Redshank was 
common about the then waste and muddy borders of the 
‘Old River’ at Ramsey, where it is now seldom seen. 
Mr. Crellin has noted a few on the Ballaugh and Michael 
coast, Mr. Leach occasionally observes it in Douglas Bay, 
and Mr. Graves has seen a few on passage in Peel neigh- 
bourhood, one being in a field with Gulls and Rooks. 
Except in the Castletown district, I have seen a Redshank 
only two or three times, once only in the north. From 
Kentraugh to Cass ny hawin, however, it is quite common, 
and from its oddities of cry and flight, is in Castletown 
Bay the most noticeable of all shore birds. It remains for 
the greater part of the year; and in fact even during the 
early summer, when most have left, an odd bird is often 
present. The Redshank exhibits a great amount of white 
on the wing when flying, and with its long legs stretched 
out behind (giving rise to the story of a ‘ black and white 
bird with a red tail’) it wheels and darts above the tide- 
