month of June, frequenting a stream in Glenbower Wood,
near Youghal, is wholly unconfirmed, and probably refers
to the Green Sandpiper. The most western locality for its
occurrence in these islands is - Cornwall, where, according to
the late Mr. Rodd (B. of Cornwall, p. 94), it' is a bird of
double passage, having once been noticed as early as the ;15th
of April. On the 20th of May, 1840, a female was killed at
the Land’s End, in whiqh were the rudiments , of eggs.^la
June of the same year another was killed in- the same
locality ; in the month of August of the saotne year a'"flock of
seven were killed in the same parish, which ' proved tp be
birds of that year; and in 1887 one was obtained' in the
middle of December. In South Devon, however, it'ts of very
rare occurrence, but in the northern' portion, borderinlf^oti
the Bristol Channel1/it-is more frequent, although rare again
in Somersetshire and Dorset. It has been obtained' from
time to time along the rest of the ’southern coast of England,
and in Essex and Suffolk. In the^tter/eounty Mr. Hole
records an unusual number about Aldeburgh in 1867, and
in the same year Mr. E. D. Po^prTmentiQns^a large party oh
the 26th July at Rainhain in Kent.-
been observed in Surrey and otheripbuhtfes bordering the
Tharhes, and in many' localities - at a considerable *distanpe
inland. In Norfolk,. Mr. Stevenson things thafc/if'Js d e creasing
in numbers, partly, owingf/perhaps, to Che di’afhage
of many’ sites on the 'oppositeJeotmt' of .Holland, where it
breeds ; and it may bejobserved that h^e asjhlsev^fOTe »
birds observecf i-n autumn are. almost invariably young Ibirds,
the adults being only noticed on the spring migrptm®. It Bp
pypn sprmi^ed thaj/tlfoJWpad S^dpinerJaas bred in Korfplk,
for aryoung, bird-Tifigured hy^Messrs.. Gnrnevnd"Eisher
(Zoql. p , , with down adhering, and not fully’ fledged',
was sho-t wpfrh an adult female during' the summer nl®lftht
by Mr. Scales, of bustard celebrity/tan d bp^irai’e how in the
collection/ of 'Mr. J. H. Gurne^y? In ifncolnshire/ as Mr.
Cordeaux informs^tEcEuitoi'/ the examples of this rarevisilor
are invariably" young piles/ and‘they are ’always'scattered
singly along the'sea-coast :■ never, inlands In Yofkshire-tajso
it is rare, but a small flock alighted near Redcar in August,
1881. It is similarly a fare spring and autumn migrant to
Durham and Northumberland, but in thé latter county Mr.
John Hancock detectèd it breeding in the now drained Prestwick
Car, where, örfthe 3rd of June, 1858, the nest and eggs
were taken after long and persevering watch, the adult male
being shot at the same tinfé.’ This is the only-occasion on
which the breeding of this species in England has beeh
authenticated, but- it appears probable that it has nestbcf'in
the above locality1 in other years.
in Scotland, according to Mr. R. Gray, the Wood Sandpiper
has been obtained in Mid-Lothian, Aberdeenshire,
and -Caithness^ and Mr. F. Bond has received well-authenticated
eggs taken hear Elgin; but on the west coast, pile'
shot on the banks of the Clyde in the autumn of 1853, now
iu Mr. Gray’s cólléétion; is*the only occurrence of which fff5
is aware. Ashéfdré stated, there isHifo satisfactory evidence
that this species has ever visited Ireland. l
The Wood Sandpiper' has occurred 'in thé Faeroes, and it
breeds in the interior of Norway, Sweden, Finland/ Russia,
Poland, Northern Germany, Denmark, and Holland, where
the localities'are suitable. Throughout" the rest of Europe
it is principally known as a bird o-ffmore of less regular
passage; hut the Editor shot an incubating female on the
edge mf a marsh near AranjuezKim Spain, ó# the 28th of
May, 1870 ,* andhit probably breeds in "Bohemia, and undoubtedly
does so in Southern Russia. Its winter quarters
cöfomènce at^tK# Mediterranean and extend throughout
Northern’ > Africa down ta- Damara Land, the' Cape,* and
Natal. Asia Minor, Persia, India", Clymuv ''and Burmah
are also visited by considerable numbers1’ during thé' cold
season, and? it occurs more sparingly in the Philippinés, and
in the islands of the Eastern Archipelagó. Dr. Severtzoff
says that if breeds dn Turkéstan; and/to the north" óf the1
gfèat Asian range/it appears to be''found right* acfoss thé
continent to China,. Japan,'and the Kuril Islands, going as1
far north as Kamtschatka, and the Boganida iu-70p'N. lat./
where Middendorff foiind it breédingl' "
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