It is not included in Professor Ansted’s list, and there is no specimen in the Museum.

124.  PURRE or DUNLIN. Tringa alpina, Linnaeus.  French, “Becasseau brunette,” “Becasseau variable.”—­The Purre is resident in all the Islands throughout the year in considerable numbers, which however are immensely increased in the autumn by migratory arrivals, most of which remain throughout the winter, departing in the spring for their breeding stations.  Though resident throughout the year, and assuming full breeding plumage, I am very doubtful as to the Purre breeding in the Islands; I have never been able to find eggs, nor, as a rule, have I found the bird anywhere but on its ordinary winter feeding-ground, amongst the mud and seaweed between high and low water mark.  The most likely parts to find them breeding seem to be some of the high land and heather in Guernsey and the sandy common on the northern part of Herm, near which place I saw a few this summer (1878) in perfect breeding plumage, and showing more signs of being paired than they generally do, and in parts of Alderney.

Professor Ansted has not mentioned it in his list.  There are two specimens in the Museum, both in breeding plumage.

125.  LITTLE STINT. Tringa minuta, Leishler.  French, “Becasseau echasses,” “Becasseau minute.”—­The Little Stint is only an occasional and never numerous autumnal visitant.  I have seen one or two in the flesh at Mr. Couch’s, killed towards the end of October, but I have never seen one alive or shot one myself.

It is included in Professor Ansted’s list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey only.  There is no specimen in the Museum.

126.  SANDERLING. Calidris arenaria, Linnaeus.  French, “Sanderling variable.”—­The Sanderling is a regular and rather early autumn visitant to all the Islands, as I have shot one as early as the end of August in Cobo Bay in Guernsey; this is about the time the Sanderling makes its first appearance on the opposite side of the Channel at Torbay.  I have not met with it later on in October and November, but no doubt a few remain throughout the winter as they do in Torbay, where I have shot Sanderlings as late as the 27th of December; a few also probably visit the Islands on their return migration in the spring.  The two in the Museum seem to bear out this, as one is nearly in winter plumage, and the other is assuming the red plumage of the breeding season, and could not have been killed before April or May.

The Sanderling is included in Professor Ansted’s list, and marked by him as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.

127.  GREY PHALAROPE. Phalaropus fulicarius, Linnaeus.  French, “Phalarope gris,” “Phalarope roussatre,” “Phalarope phatyrhinque."[19]—­The Grey Phalarope is a tolerably regular and occasionally numerous autumnal visitant to all the Islands, not, however, arriving before the end of October or beginning of November.  At this time of year the greater numbers of birds