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every description- — the soft oozy beach, the sand, the gravel, about 
the Norway-like of the Killeries (Connemara), and the iron- 
bound coast of Antrim, including the Giant^s Causeway itself — 
its piping note proclaims its presence. 
In the most varied scenery of the sister island, too, the sand- 
piper has attracted my attention. At Ogwell Pool, in the midst 
of the savage grandeur of North Wales ; about tiie sweet and 
lovely Lake of Windermere ; at the softly- gliding Learn, where 
it meanders through the rich pastures and meadows above the 
town of Leamington ; at the lively and brawling river which 
hurries through the bleak and sterile mountain-pass of Glencroe ; 
and about the gravelly sea-shore at Yentnor, in the Isle of Wight 
— the garden of England — have I been gratitied by beholding 
it. At the wild and desert-like sandy reaches of the lihiiie, 
below Basle,'^- the sandpiper has also claimed my admiration, and 
it was the first bird to welcome me to Greece ; several, with 
their piping notes, hailing our party as we landed at the noble 
Bay of Navarino.t 
The Spotted Sandpiper. Totams macularius, Linn, (sp.) 
Has been publicly noticed in a few instances, as having been obtained 
ill Ireland ; but the bird erroneously so named by Bewick, which is 
merely T. liypoleiicos in a particular state of plumage, was meant, in 
the instances which I have investigated, and not the true species. 
This will probably yet be found visiting the island. It was only first 
made known as a British bird from the occurrence of a single specimen 
in England, in September 1839.1 A few other individuals have since 
been met with in that country. The spotted sandpiper is a common 
bird in the United States of America, moving from the south towards 
the north to breed, as the nearly allied T. hypoleucos does in Europe j 
thus representing the latter species in the Western Hemisphere, 
within which it is not found. In Norway, Sweden, and Germany, the 
T. maoulariu8 is occasionally observed. 
* July 15. t April 28. + Yarrell, Brit. Birds. 
