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XXI. 
Eccles n r - Laklingford 
Sep r - ]4 ib - [1840] 
My dear Sir. 
I wrote to you some time ago upon what I had 
been able to observe of the habits of the Green Sandpiper (Tringa 
Ochropus, Linn.) after observing them in the neighbouring streams 
for two or three seasons continuously. I am nearly certain that 
they remain here all the year, with the exception of that period in 
spring and early summer in which they withdraw to hatch and 
rear their young. I have shot them in extremity of frost, and 
have always seen one here and there during the Snipe shooting in 
March but the 11 th - of April is the latest time in spring in which I 
observed them, this year I asked my Nephew, who is often about 
the rivulet, looking for fish or shooting rabbits, to let me know as 
soon as he perceived them return. On July the twenty third ho 
told me that he had seen six together, and on the twenty sixth of 
the same month, I found them near the place he had mentioned, 
by creeping on my hands and knees I obtained a near view as they 
walked about on a mud bank, and believe from the duller look of 
the plumage of some, that they were two old birds with a brood of 
young ones. They appear to separate soon after their arrival, or to 
unite for a day or two as fancy leads them. 
Very little specific has b[een sa]id by any British Naturalists as 
far as I am aware upon the habits or the migrations of this bird, 
which was my reason for sending you this. 
Believe Me Dear Sir 
Yours sincerely 
R D: Lubbock. 
W. Y au hell Esq* 
Ryder S 4 - S 4 ' James.’ 
London. 
