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GREEN SANDRIPER. 
liave been encountered on its passage to our shores, the weather liaving been exceedingly stormy for some davs 
past. Immature birds are also frequently met with during autumn about the mudhanks on some of the 
Sussex rivers, and tliey also visit the pools of brackish water inside the shingle-hanks along several parts of 
the coast-line. The winding course of the river Adur, from Shoreham Harbour to Rramher, fs still a favourite 
resort for immature birds every autumn, and further east the Hats between Rye and Winchelsoa were 
formerly always frequented at this season. 
Ihe first entry in my notes concerning this species occurs under the date of the IGth of September, 1859 
when three young birds were shot at a large pool of brackish water near the centre of the wide-stretchin- 
shmgle-banks near the Nook at Rye*. An extraordinary number of Waders were then scattered over the 
mudflats and along the course of the broad dyke that led from the backwater near AVinchelsea guardhouse to 
the tideway in the harbour. A great change has now taken place over this once famous resort for Fowl and 
H aders ; the whole stretch of mudflats covered at every tide have, after several failures, been at length drained 
and turned into grass-marshes, and the chance for observing rare species formerly to bo obtained must no 
longer be expected. 
* Ihe birds obtained on that day are referred to under the heading of the Spotted Redshank on page 1 
