EASTERN GREENSHANK. 
Remessens River. On all occasions the birds were very wild and difficult to 
approach within gun shot.” 
Captain S. A. White writes : “ These birds are not regular visitors to 
South Austraha ; still they are not uncommon at times. I have seen them 
running along the sandy shore at the Murray Mouth and on the Coorong.” 
Mr. J. W. Mellor records : “ This bird is by no means plentiful in South 
Austraha. They wade about knee deep in the marshy swamps in solitary 
ones and pairs. I observed them on Lake Albert in October, 1894, and at 
Stamsbury, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, on 15th to 17th April, 1911. 
Owing to their being so wary, no specimens were obtained.” 
“ A few Greenshanks may be seen every year [Richmond District, 
North Queensland] nearly always singly, but occasionally three or four 
together. November, middle to end, appears to be their favourite time of 
arrival, but I have one early instance — 19th September, 1905. 29th March, 
1902, is the latest date upon which I have seen them here.”* 
“ While some fished in the pools, and along their edges, thrusting their 
long bills into the mud, others slept or preened their feathers. Now and then 
a small party would leisurely take flight to another and more distant part of 
the beach. AU the while I had the birds under observation, there was constant 
movement, much coming and going. Altogether there must have been some 
twenty individuals of this species, scattered over different parts of the beach. 
What made their presence aU the more interesting, was the fact that the 
species is but an irregular visitor to our shores, there being but few records 
of previous visits. ’’f 
Middendorff writes : “ Not seen in the North. Bred plentifully on the 
west side of the Stanovoi Mountains (on May 12th on the lakes of Markolj). 
From here on it was frequently seen on all the large marshes, on the mountains, 
and also on the sea coast ; and it perched with much noise on the low trees 
around the marshes. 
“ Towards the end of August I saw it for the last time in the neighbour- 
hood of the mountains on the border of Manchuria.” 
Schrenck observes that he did not meet this bird on the lower Amur, on 
spring-migration, but frequently in the late summer. In both the years he 
was on that river, young specimens were observed in August on the muddy 
and moist banks. He mostly found them alone, rarely in pairs or small 
flocks ; they were always very shy, flying out of range with a loud, piercing 
cry. His specimens were obtained in August. 
* Bemey, EmUy Vol. VI., p. 114, 1907. 
t Littler, Handh. Birds Tasm., p. 141, 1910 
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