WOOD-SAKDriPER — SPOTTED REDSHANK — GREENSHANK. 
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now in the possession of Mr. Douglass of Market Harborough. A fine female 
was shot at Saddington Reservoir on 19th August, 1887, by Mr. A. K. Perkins, 
and presented to the Museum, being the first we have acquired, as an undoubted 
local specimen, since 1851. 
In Rutland.— A spring and autumn visitant, sometimes remaining during 
the winter. — I saw two mounted specimens in the possession of the Earl of 
Gainsborough, which he informs me were shot at Ashwell Brook, in January, 
1887, and I saw a beautiful example at the ponds by “Fort Henry,” Exton Park, 
on ISthSept., 1887. Since then. Lord Gainsborough observed it on the Welland 
at Tinwell, on 19th April, 1888 (see ‘ Zool.’, 1888, p. 304). Mr. R. Tryon possesses 
a mounted specimen procured in the summer of 1887, which he informed me 
he saw sitting on the hurdles around the cricket-ground opposite to his house. 
Masters sent, for the Museum, a fine male, which he shot at Burley on 
3rd Jan., 1889. 
WOOD-SANDPIPER. Totanus glareola (Gmelin). 
A rare straggler, on migration, to Britain. — Harley characterized this species 
as more rare and shy than its congener, T. ochropus, and stated that it was met 
with at Groby Pool in 1840, and also occurred during the winter of 1852-3. 
SPOTTED REDSHANK. Totanus fuscus (Linnseus). 
A rare straggler, on migration, to Britain. — Inserted in this list on the 
authority of Mr. J. Whitaker, of Mansfield, Notts., who wrote me : — “ I have also 
a Spotted Redshank, shot by my brother, W. Whitaker, Esq., Sept., 1880, on 
Thornton Reservoir side,” and again : — “ The Redshank, Spotted, is notin the dark 
summer plumage, but I think in change.” 
GREENSHANK. Totanus cancsccns (Gmelin). 
A rare spring and autumn visitant. — Harley wrote : — “ Has been shot on the 
banks of Groby Pool, and also at Swithland. Air. Yarrell, on the authority of a 
resident at Alelton Alowbray,* stated that it is not uncommon in the more eastern 
parts of the county.” I saw a specimen in the hands of Elkington, said to have 
been shot at Enderby. Writing to Air. Joseph Burchnall, of the Cottage Farm, 
Enderby, for confirmation, he replied : — “ I shot the Greenshank some time in 
August, 1885, in Shenton Aleadow, Parish of Enderby.” 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — C. Alasters told me that he shot one in 
Alarch, 1879 or 1880, at Burley Ponds, and that the late Air. Widdowson had it 
and named it. 
* Probably the late Mr. Widdowson, who was often in communication with Yarrell : but I 
do not know what gave rise to this statement, as I have no definite record of the occurrence of 
this species in the county, with the exception of the Enderby specimen, and even Harley con- 
fesses, at the close of his note, that he is quite unable to give any further details than the bald 
statement above. 
