412 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
THE GREENSHANK. 
Totanus canescens (J. F. Gmelin). 
A fairly regular visitant to certain localities on the autumn -migration. 
A pair of Greenshanks, as recorded by W. J.[ardine] on 
May 21st, 1829, were shot on the Annan, about two miles 
below Jardine Hall ; " they frequented also the adjoining 
lochs of Lochmaben; and when disturbed, immediately 
passed over, always nearly by the same route, to the quieter 
haunts, flying very high, and incessantly uttering their 
shrill pipmg whistle. They are now in the collection of 
Sir W. Jardine, Bart."* The same authority writes of the 
Greenshank in 1832 as " seen sometimes on the Annan," 
in the parish of Applegarth and Sibbaldbie,t and some ten 
years later he states: "In the south of Scotland (in our own 
vicinity) they are frequently, in autumn, observed in the 
evening, flying or passing over at a considerable elevation, 
as if on some passage or migration, and are betrayed by their 
noisy notes. During winter one or two individuals are seen, 
and occasionally procured, by the riverside, or near some 
wide ditches. "$ 
A few specimens were obtained on the shores of the Solway 
during the severe winter of 1878-1879. A Greenshank, 
shot upon the Annan Water, as far up as Dalfibble " (Kirk- 
michael), in July or August, 1887, is thus recorded by 
WiUiam Hastings, who adds : " I have not had above two 
or three specimens of the same bird for more than thirty 
years. "§ Mr. R. Service informs me that a fine adult male 
was shot near Caerlaverock on August 15th, 1887, and a 
* Mag. Nat. Hist, 1829, Vol. II., p. 283. 
t New Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. IV., p. 181. 
X Nat. Lib., 1842, Vol. XII., p. 206. 
§ Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, November 4th, 1887. 
