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farce to talk of the snipe-shooting in Bermuda ; but occasionally large 

 flights come in, and really fair bags are made, such as six or uine couple 

 a-day to two guns. Pembroke Marsh is the great place for them, and a 

 few usually take up their quarters iu Devonshire Swamp. They are 

 very good eating at first, but soon become rank from feeding in the 

 brackish mud. They lie closer than our European snipe, and a dog is a 

 sine qua nan in the thick scrub-grown marshes. Their note is very sim- 

 ilar, but they differ somewhat in plumage, especially iu having sixteen 

 tail-feathers instead of fourteen like our bird. 



102. GalUnago media, Leach. European Snipe j Common Snipe. 



Scolopax gaUlnago, Liuu., Gm., Biiss, 



GalUnago media, Leach. 



GalUnago scolopaoina, Bp., Naum., Gould. 



Gallinago uniclavata, Ilodgs. 



GalUnago hrehmi, Kaup, Jard. 



Gallinago delamotti, Bail. 



GalUnago sahini, Vig., Gould. 



We have Colonel Wedderburn's authority for the occurrence of this 

 bird iu Bermuda. He says (Xat. in B., p. 43): "I shot one of this spe- 

 cies on the 24:th December, 1847. It precisely answered to the descrip- 

 tion of the 8. gallinago and had but fourteen tail-feathers. I shot an- 

 other specimen also with fourteen tail-feathers on the 29th December, 

 1847. Both these birds I got in Pembroke Marsh, and there cannot be 

 the least doubt about the bird and the propriety of adding it to the 

 Bermuda list." 



Genus Macrorhamphus, Leach. 



103. Macrorhamphus griseus, (Gm.) Leach. Eed-breasted Snipe; Grey 



Snii)e. 



Scolopax grisea, Gm., Latb., Temm., Flem., Jen., Schl. 



Scolopax {Macrorhamphus) grista, Bp., Nutt. 



Macrorhamphus griseus, Leach, Steph., Eyt., Keys. & Bias., Gray, Bp., Bd., 



Coop. & Suck., Salv., aad late authors. 

 Limosa grisea, Schl. 



Scolopax noveboracensis, Gm., Lath., Wils., Sw. & Rich., Aud., Gir. 

 Totanus noveboracensis, Sabine. 

 Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr., Bd., Elliot, Coues, Dall & Bann. 



Length, 10; wing, 5f ; tail, 2|. 



Hab. — The whole of North America, Greenland, Mexico, West Indies,^ 

 Central America. Much of South America, Brazil, Cbili. Of frequent 

 casual occurrence in Europe. (Coues.) 



, One "shot by Captain Orde on the 29th September, 1847, at Harris's 

 Bay; another was killed by Mr. C. Fozard on the 21st August, 1848" 



