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SCOLOPACIDiE. 
The green sandpiper is very rarely seen near Waterford.^ About 
the month of October^ 1822 (?) one was shot at the sea-side, near 
Youghal, by Mr. E;. Ball. In November 1835, a bird in full 
adult plumage was killed by Mr. E. Chute, in a bog about five 
miles from the sea, near Tralee. The same gentleman procured 
another which was shot in that neighbourhood about the 1st of 
October, 1846. Most of the above examples, of which particu- 
lars are known, appeared about fresh water. 
The green sandpiper seems to have come more frequently under 
the notice of Sir Wm. Jardine, than any ornithologist in Britain ; 
and, accordingly, an interesting account of it, as observed about 
his residence in Dumfries- shire, is given in his ^ History of British 
Birds.'’ As information three or four years subsequent to what 
appears there (the volume was published in 1842), it may 
be mentioned that when at Jardine Hall, in October 1845, a 
specimen was shown to me which had been killed in the first week 
of that month. Between the middle of September and that period 
the species had annually been met with there, for several years, 
when on its passage southward. In one instance only had it been 
obtained in winter. It frequents the bogs in elevated situations 
as well as the low grounds. 
The green sandpiper migrates regularly, for the purpose of 
breeding, to the countries of northern Europe. Its habits in 
England, as well remarked by Mr. Yarrell, are not yet perfectly 
understood.'’'’ It is only known in Ireland, to the present time, 
as occurring at uncertain intervals, and those chiefly late in 
autumn or in winter ; — we know notliing of its breeding in this 
island. 
* Dr. R. J. Burkitt. 
