SNIPE 395 



Genus GALLINAGO, Leach. 

 GEE AT SNIPE. 



Gallinago major (Gmelin). ^S'.iV., i., p. 661 (1788). 

 Solitary Snipe. 



Only an occasional autumn and winter visitor to Kent. 

 Few instances of its having been obtained are recorded 

 in the county. 



The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, 

 remarks that the Great Snipe is " rare " in Kent. 

 There is a Kentish specimen in the Maidstone Museum 

 presented by Mr. G. Simmons. Morris states that " Mr. 

 Chaffey, of Dodington, has seen it in that place in Sep- 

 tember, 1850." Mr. G. Dowker, in his Birds of East 

 Kent, 1889, says : " The Great Snipe has been frequently 

 met with in our marshes, though it must still be reckoned 

 a rare bird ; it is, perhaps, of ttimes confounded with the 

 Common Snipe, but when flushed it does not utter the 

 scape cry so universally the case in the Common Snipe." 



In the Zoologist, 1894, Mr. W. Oxenden Hammond 

 records that a " Great Snipe {Gallinago major) was shot 

 on October 1 by Captain Plumbe, Koyal Marines, who 

 kindly sent it to me. It was killed in the neighbourhood 

 of Deal." 



SNIPE. 

 Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus). >S'.iV., i., p. 244 



(1766). 



The Snipe is plentiful in all the marshlands in Kent 

 during the autumn and winter, and on their movement 

 southward, according to the severity of the season. 



