CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
TRINOA SUBARQUATA. 
ScotcTcoa!t T tl'e only English counties in which I have met with this species. On the 
Scotch coast I never recogntsed tins Sandpiper in spring, though the young are far from uncommon in 
autumn along the sandy shores of the Firth of Forth, hetween Gnllanc Bay and Dunbar. Ad “hibL! 
full breeding-plumage appear from my own observations, as well as from the information gathered from the 
punt-gunners and shore-shooters I encountered in my travels, to have been at all times somlvhat scarce • in 
autumn, however, numbers of old birds, their feati.ers worn and the colours faded as well as Hr JT t’ 
immature plumage, are to be seen on the southern and eastern coasts So far as T 1,’av l n f ® “ 
but few of this species remain long enough on our shores to assume the winter dress 
the greaterrar“v“l 1870, though I was on Breydon muddats daily for 
e greater part ot May, I did not meet with a single specimen, while on tho snmn i i . 
the 15th a single bird flew' round the boats in answer to the call of the Plnv^,, i f = o On 
the shoulder-gun was discovered to be a female. The colouring was bv no ’m'' 
diminutive white markings nervadin- the feathers l '>y "<> “eats ™ rich as in the male, 
at a Short distance a mealy ^ “tn^ce w iX : r™:.: 
day flying high in the air: though wdieeling round in Xselo tire c 1 f ' ““ 
and in every instance finally went off, holding a due norGi-east course ’ " raase, 
the call, which somewhat resembles that of tim Ti r V ^ “fl™‘''tcd with 
to a far greater distance! nianX ttee birtv I-sessmg more power and conscguently audible 
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none w-ere observed again till the 24th, when a fine red male was found feeding onTir.nudrnr't’f “‘I ‘'“''l 
no opinion „ to whether .ht plnl^ »" hT dlfar 
