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BIRDS. 
308. Bartramia longicauda (BechsL). Bartram's Sandpiper. 
309. Actitis hypoleucos (L.). Common Sandpiper. 
Summer visitant ; abundant all through the county ; arriving 
about the end of April, and leaving directly the young are 
able to fly well. We have met with this species 2500 feet 
above the sea, in the old pass over Ben Chaorin. Breeds 
both inland and on the islands of the sea-lochs. 
WoUey has the note, " Called ' Goberleery' in Gaelic in 
Sutherlandshire, from the noise it makes in the breeding 
season" (Woll. K-B., iii. p. 293), and the same name is in 
use there still. 
Caithness name — " Willy Wet-Feet." Common summer visit- 
ant, breeding along the edge of all those lochs that have stony 
margins, and also along the river-banks (0. MSS., 1868). 
310. Totanus macularius (L.). Spotted Sandpiper. 
[A specimen recorded by Dr. Sinclair as being in his collec- 
tion.] 
Mr. Eeid writes : " This is an error ; it is not a spotted 
sandpiper." Mr. Eeid had a skin of the spotted sandpiper 
sent him by Mr. J. H. Gurney for comparison. Mr. Gurney 
says : " The birds were very unlike," and thought Dr. Sin- 
clair's specimen was a redshank in peculiar plumage. Dr. 
Sinclair's bird passed into Mr. Eeid's possession, having 
been given to him by Mrs, Sinclair. 
311. Totanus ochropus (L.). Green Sandpiper. 
Very rare visitant. One shot at Helmsdale in the winter of 
1879, as far as we can remember, came to Inverness to be 
preserved, where we saw it in Mr. Macleay's shop. 
Dunbar, in his 1844 List, says: "One killed at Bonar 
Bridge, 18th October 1844." 
