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at least a dozen of this species were stopped by the discliarge. I remarked tliat the adults were in 
almost full summer plumage and nearly double the size of the immature birds ; the legs and feet of both 
old and young were of a dirty greenish-yellow tinge. While shooting on Breydon in May 1873, we 
noticed that a few Greenshanks, in company with Redshanks, came daily to the flats as the tide fell, betaking 
themselves at high water to the slades in the marshes ; these were doubtless the young of the previous 
year, the feathers on the head and neck being exceedingly light and totally different to the state of 
plumage exhibited by the adults during the breeding-season. 
liming stoiniy nights these birds arc often attracted by the lights, and niav be beard in company 
with other Waders screaming over towns ; I repeatedly detected their shrill outcries amon<>' the varied 
notes of several large and noisy flocks that passed and circled over Yarmouth on the night of the 4th 
of Septemher, 1872, and again on the 25th of August the following year. Even when undisturbed by 
sudden atmospheric changes, Greenshanks may he heard while on wing during the hours of darkness : 
half an hour after midnight on the 22nd of July, 1873, while quanting quietly up one of the rivers 
running through the flat country in the east of Norfolk, we listened for some minutes to their unmistakable 
notes as a pair winged their way overhead, apparently holding a course pointing due north-east. 
A stiff breeze of wind not uiifrequently brings flocks of these and other Waders to the hills and marshes 
around the Norfolk broads at any season of the year. On the 28th of April, 1883, the wind blowing strongly 
from the cast-south-east and exceedingly cold, a nuniher of Black and Common Terns as well as Waders 
were driven for shelter to the flooded marshes and sheltered portions of Mickling Broad. Chance visitors, 
such as Curlew, lYhimhrel, Greenshanks, and Dunlins, were in swarms, while the Peewits, Redshanks, and 
Buffs and Reeves had greatly increased in numbers, their ranks having been recruited by birds on passage 
to more northern quarters. ° 
I have met with this species only on a single occasion in winter, and then its presence at that time 
of year was evidently compulsory. On the 14th of December, 1882, an adult bird in light-tinted 
plumage, with the breast streaked with black, was shot at a brackish pool just inside the shingle-hanks 
between Shoreliam and Lancing. On rising from the water’s edge, I remarked that its flight appeared to be 
much impeded by wounds or weakness, and on further examination it was discovered that the wino- had 
been either imperfectly pinioned or cut by a shot. It may not he out of place to state that the points 
o both upper and lower mandibles were of a dark horn tint, an olive-greenish brown showing at the base 
the legs and feet exhibiting a dull olive-green tinge. 
While sliooting round the islands near tlio head of the Cromarty I'irth in the early autumn of 1808, 
found several small parties of Greenshanks, evidently hatehed out on the moors in the neighhourhood! 
feeding among the weeds that grow profusely on the moist soil of the mudllats. A few of the vouimer 
htrds that were killed hy the punt-gun while in pursuit of fowl or other Waders proved liy no' niemis 
unpalatable, though excessively fat, when properly dressed. As Snipes, however, were ahuiidant and 
easily obtained, I did not molest these interesting juveniles to any extent. 
