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THE WOOD SANDPIPEE. 
Totanus glareola, Linn, (sp.) 
Tringa ,, „ 
Cannot be recorded with certainty. 
To the following notice which I communicated to the ^ Annals of 
Natural History (vol. v. p. 8) nothing of consequence can here be 
added. Mr. E. Ball describes a species of Totanus to me^ which 
he saw for several years^ about the month of June, frequenting a 
stream in Glenbower wood, near Youghal, and believes to have 
been this bird. In the late Mr. Ternpleton^s MSS., a sandpiper, 
considered to be of this species, is noticed as having been seen in 
the neighbourhood of Belfast, but, as in the preceding instance, 
in terms which do not warrant its introduction to the Eauna with 
certainty.'’^ The description of a bird killed on the borders of 
Belfast Bay, in September 1844, and communicated by the 
shooter, exactly agrees with the T. glareola ; but the specimen 
was not saved. 
This species is but an occasional visitant to England, where it 
appears to have occurred even more frequently about the Landes 
End, Cornwall, than elsewhere,* — a circumstance which leads me 
to believe that it must sometimes visit Ireland, and more espe- 
cially the southern parts. It has not been noticed in Scotland 
(Jard., Macg.). 
The wood sandpiper has a very extensive geographical range, 
and moves northward regularly to breed within the European 
Arctic circle. Moist woods, and swamps producing willows 
and brushwood, are its favourite habitats, where it lives solitary, 
or, in the breeding season, in pairs.^B' 
^ Mr. E. H. Rodd, in the ‘ Zoologist’ (vol. i. pp. 143, 189) ; also Yan-ell’s British 
Birds. 
t Selby. 
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