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in March : both localities on the rocky basaltic coast of Ad- 
trim. On the county Down shore of Belfast Bay^ within three 
miles of the town,, where it is of an oozy nature,, with small tracts 
of sand, two of these birds were seen, and one of them (an 
adult) shot on the 24th of October, 1844; another had been 
killed there a short time before. I had not previously known this 
sandpiper to visit the bay ; a flock of eight or nine birds frequented 
it from the beginning of October that year. On the 28th of Oct., 
1845, a single bird (young of the year) was seen, and shot on the 
gravelly beach at Thomson'’s embankment a short way lower down 
the bay than the docks of the town. On the 7th of November, 
1849, two were killed together at the Kinnegar; one of them 
being a young bird of the year ; the other floated out to sea and 
was lost. In March 1849, a purple sandpiper was shot at 
Gransha Point, Strangford Lough, where but the one appeared, 
in company with a ringed plover. The following is Mr. Mont- 
gomery’s note before referred to : — 
‘‘Dec. 2>rd or 1822. — Got four of these birds out of six 
on the rocks at Tyrella, about two miles north-east of Dundrum 
[Down] : they were so tame, although there had been no hard 
weather, that when shot at, they rose and flew but a short distance. 
They always alighted on large stones ; never on the sands. I 
killed two out of tliree, and my companion did the same."” When 
visiting Dundrum in August 1 836, 1 saw the gentleman here alluded 
to, who considers that this sandpiper regularly frequents the rocks 
on that coast about St. John’s Point. One of these birds was ob- 
tained in the winter of 1837-38 near Lurgan Green, county of 
Louth.* 
Mr. W. S. Wall, bird-preserver, Dublin, presented me in 1833 
with an immature specimen which was shot by himself in summer 
at the Lighthouse beyond the Pigeon-house Port, Dublin Bay ; 
near to which place the only one of these birds met with on any 
part of the Irish coast, by T. W. Warren, Esq., was shot by him 
about the 1st of November, 1831. Another gentleman mentions 
* Mr. H. H. Dombrain. 
