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was taken by Mr. Vigors, as well as that in the 

 possession of Colonel Bonham, shot by himself in 

 Ireland, which I have since examined. Altoo-ether 

 it has very much the look of a diminutive wood- 

 cock, but is of darker colour, beautifully mot- 

 tled with transverse pencillings of a light copper 

 hue: the top of the head and back of the neck 

 are of a sooty black. In size it is intermediate 

 between the common and the jack-snipe, but the 

 beak is even longer in proportion than that of 

 the former, and the legs shorter. This, of course, 

 is only intended as a rough sketch of its general 

 appearance: for specific details, the reader is re- 

 ferred to Yarrell's " British Birds,'' and Jenyns's 

 " Manual of British Vertebrate Animals.'' 



Curlew Sandpiper or Pigmy Curlew, Tringa 

 suharquata. Has been obtained frequently on 

 the coast during the autumn and winter. Scarce 

 in summer. 



Knot, Tringa canutus. Several are killed 

 every autumn and winter, of the usual light grey 

 colour. Less frequently met with in the spring 

 and summer when presenting the ferruginous 

 plumage peculiar to that season, except during 

 the brief period that intervenes between their 

 arrival from the Continent and the resumption 

 of their journey towards the North. 



Little Stint, Tringa minuta. Rather a scarce 



