236 SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE. 



Common Snipe, Scollopax gallinago. Tolerably 

 abundant in the winter, on moors and extensive 

 tracts of low meadow land after the subsidence of 

 great floods 



Jack Snipe, Scolopax gallinula. Of less fre- 

 quent occurrence than the last, but not un- 

 common. 



Sabine's Snipe, Scolopax Sahini. So named 

 by Mr. Vigors — the flrst describer of the species — 

 in 1822, in compliment to the late Mr. Sabine, 

 then the Secretary of the Zoological Club. 



On the oth of March, 1845, Serjeant Carter, of 

 Cliichester, to whose frequent success I have 

 already alluded {vide Bee-eater), shot a very fine 

 example of this, the rarest bird, perhaps, in the 

 world. It rose from the banks of a stream called 

 the Lavant, at Appledram, near Chichester Har- 

 bour. It did not utter a cry like the common 

 snipe — a fact which coincides with the previous 

 oljservation of Colonel Bonham. Only six in- 

 stances of its occurrence are on record, and all of 

 these in the British Islands.* I was fortunate 

 enough to become the possessor of this prize. 

 The plumage exactly resembles that of the speci- 

 men in the museum of the Zoological Society in 

 the Regent's Park, from which the first description 



* Vide Yarrell's " History of British Birds," second 

 edition. 



