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in September. They are_, consequently^ not so restricted to 
marine localities as in the south of Scotland, where the species 
has come under the observation of Sir Wm. Jardine. He 
remarks that we have never seen them even as stragglers upon 
our lochs and rivers, as the greenshank and some other maritime 
Totani frequently are."’’* This author alludes only to marshes 
adjoining the sea, as the maritime breeding-places of redshanks in 
Scotland. As already noticed, they nidify on the sliingly beach 
itself in some parts of Ireland. On the extensive gravelly 
banks at the mouth of the Stinchar, in Apshire, I was told, a 
few years ago, that they, as well as the oyster- catcher and ring 
plover, bred. Numbers, annually, form their nests on the 
gravel, like the ring plover, along the shores of Islay and the 
neighbouring islets, as I have been assured by those who have 
gathered their eggs. 
I have rarely obtained examples of this bird in its handsome 
adult summer plumage, which differs much from that of winter, 
as well as from that of young birds of the year. 
On the 23rd of July, 1826, I observed a solitary redshank on 
the beach of the Lago di Garda, in the north of Italy. 
THE GEEEN SANDPIPEK. 
Totanus ochropus, Linn, (sp.) 
' Tringa 
Is only known as a rare visitant ; but has occurred at all 
seasons of the year, 
'As it has done in England. It is, however, of much more fre- 
quent occurrence there than in Ireland. In Scotland, Sir William 
Jardine remarks that this handsome bird is met with in about 
equal numbers with the greenshank.f It is far otherwise in 
Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 202. 
t Ibid., vol. iii. p. 210. 
