. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . nterest you to know that yesterday Mr. Evan Sanderson 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. viii. p. 196, 2 ibid, vol. viii. pp. 528, 529. 3 Ibid. vol. ix. p. 401. THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 253 and I saw a Green Sandpiper on the Whitadder nearClarabad Mill, Mr. James Purves, gamekeeper at Mor-dington, has informed me that he has twice shot thisspecies on that estate, the first instance being in a bog atthe Lang Belt plantation, and
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . nterest you to know that yesterday Mr. Evan Sanderson 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. viii. p. 196, 2 ibid, vol. viii. pp. 528, 529. 3 Ibid. vol. ix. p. 401. THE GREEN SANDPIPER. 253 and I saw a Green Sandpiper on the Whitadder nearClarabad Mill, Mr. James Purves, gamekeeper at Mor-dington, has informed me that he has twice shot thisspecies on that estate, the first instance being in a bog atthe Lang Belt plantation, and the next in a ditch lead-ing to Mordington Mains upper damhead. Mr. AndrewBrotherston, bird-stuffer, Kelso, mentioned to me on the19th of March 1885 that, about the middle of August1884, three examples were shot on a pond on the marchbetween the farms of Lochton, in the parish of Eccles andHarpertown. Mr. John Thomson, Maxton, tells me that aspecimen was shot near Ninewells in the second week ofJanuary 1891.^ The Green Sandpiper is very erratic in its movements,and is a visitor to the British Islands on spring and autumnmigration. 1 Letter dated the 29th of January t-^// I \ H. H^ isq ^i ^ yM ij> e*i »V LIMICOL^. ( 254 ) SCOLOPACID^. THE COMMON HEDSHANK. SEA SNIPE, POOL SNIPE, SAND COCK, KED-LEGGED SNIPE. Tutanus calidris. The rede-schank cry it my fut, my fut.^ COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND. The Eedshank is found during the autumn, winter, andspring months on some parts of the coast of Berwickshire,such as the neighbourhood of Oldcambus, where Mr. Hardyoccasionally sees small flocks about Greenheugh and SiccarPoint from about the beginning of July until the end ofApril. Although the great majority of the Eedshanks aremigratory, and leave our shores in spring for their breed-ing grounds in the northern parts of Europe, returningagain in autumn, yet many remain in Great Britainthroughout the summer and rear their young in suitablelocalities. Mr. Gray says that a few pairs br
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