BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
W. Duckworth in the breeding-season.* One was got near 
Skinburness, Cumberland, in 1893, and another at the same 
locality on August 20th, 1898.t 
I am not aware of the occurrence of the Wood-Sandpiper 
in Dumfriesshire. The specimen mentioned in " Some Bird 
Notes from Eskdale by Richard BeU of Castle O'er was 
shot by him on August 14th, 1857, a httle to the west of the 
village of Heriot, among the Muirfoot HiUs, in Midlothian.] 
THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 
Totanus ochropus (Linnseus). 
A very irregular autumn-visitor. 
In a letter dated from Jardine Hall on August 25th, 1827, 
Sir WiUiam Jardine informs his friend P. J. Selby, that he 
saw two Green Sandpipers on August 12th, but he could 
not get near them. " They were," he writes, " on a 
small burn in the muir and flew an immense distance when- 
ever raised." Sir WiUiam writes in 1842 : " The specimens 
aUuded to by Mr. YarreU, as shot in Dumfriesshire, were 
killed in spring, at the mouth of a smaU tributary of the 
Annan, where they remained some days— notice having 
been sent to Mr. Murray of their being there, as a bird not 
known ; they had also been seen near the same spot in 
previous years."§ These Green Sandpipers, a male and 
female, were shot in May, 1829, at the foot of Skein Water 
by Mr. J. D. Murray of Murraythwaite, and were recorded 
as the first authenticated specimens of the species obtained 
in the district. II They passed into his collection,^! but their 
* Fauna of Lakeland, 1892, p. 395. 
•j- Trans. Carlisle Nat. Hist. Soc, 1909, p. 57. 
X Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, April 17th, 1901. 
§ Nat. Lib., 1842, Vol. XII., pp. 210, 211. 
II Mag. Nat. Hist., 1829, Vol. II., p. 282. 
^ Illtist. Brit. Ornith., 1833, Vol. II., p. 76. 
