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GREEN SANDPIPER. 
In Norfolk they occur in some numbers both on the coast 
and in the inland marshy districts; one was shot near Lynn, 
the beginning of January, 1853. A few well-authenticated 
instances have been recorded of its breeding in this county. 
One was obtained by L. H. Irby, Esq., from Saham Tony, in 
Norfolk, killed near there June 14th., 1853. 
They are mostly seen with us in winter, and I am inclined 
to believe do not altogether leave the country in summer, but 
only are less noticed from their resorting then to the most 
sequestered places, there to build. 
Specimens have been shot in Cambridgeshire, in May and 
August. One was shot, as recorded by the Rev. Leonard 
Jenyns, in the Isle of Ely, between Downham and the 
Hundred-foot River, on the 28th. of August, 1821. A party 
of five were seen one summer in Suffolk, near Levington; 
other six in Norfolk, near Attleburgh. Four young were 
hatched on the estate of Sir Thomas Beevor, in 1829; one, 
also a young bird, near G-odalming, Surrey; and some young 
broods, with their parents, were seen near Yarmouth, in the 
Isle of Wight, the first week of August, 1837. Mr. Selby 
mentions his having met with them by small rills on the 
moors near Twizell, in Northumberland, in August; another 
was also shot in the same county; and two, a male and 
female, were killed by John Murray, Esq., of Murraythwaite, 
in Dumfriesshire, near that place in the spring of 1829. 
One of these birds, a male, was shot by R. A. Julian, Esq., 
Senior, on the River Erme, near Plymouth, in Devonshire, 
on the 15th. of August, 1849; and one, a female, by Mr. 
R. A. Julian, Junior, on the banks of the Plym, on the 
17th. of August, 1850; also a young one, July 31st., 1851, 
at Crabtree, near the same place. One in Cornwall, near 
Falmouth, by J. Passingham, Esq., August 28th., 1847; and 
a pair were obtained near St. Keyme, East Looe. Others, 
the Hon. T. L. Powys has informed me, used to frequent, in 
August, the River Nene, near Lilford, Northamptonshire; a 
few occur most winters about Brighthampton, near Witney, 
Oxfordshire. 
In Ireland a pair, male and female, were procured in the 
county of Kildare, in October. 1846. 
About the end of April or beginning of May the Green 
Sandpiper moves northwards, and by the end of July begins 
to retrace its way to the regions from whence it had come, 
which movement continues till the beginning of September. 
