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the 25tli September, 1835, and passed into the collection of 

 the late T. C. Heysham.* A fourth example, killed at 

 Yarmouth in October, 1836, became the property of the Rev. 

 Leonard Rudd, residing in Yorkshire, who did the Author 

 the favour to bring his bird to London that he might see it. 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney has recorded a male, now in his collection, 

 which was obtained near Yarmouth in October, 1840 (Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 236). 



On the 9th October, 1845, a male, changing like the other 

 October birds from summer to winter plumage, was shot by 

 Mr. Rising of Hornsey, in whose collection it still is, a com- 

 panion bird escaping. Mr. Harting records (B. of Middlesex, 

 p. 195) one in the collection of Mr. F. Bond, killed some 

 years ago on the banks of the Thames near Battersea ; and 

 one in his own collection shot on the Brent in October, 1862. 

 One is stated to have been killed previous to 1857, near 

 Kingsbridge, Devonshire (Zool. p. 5791), and on the 3rd 

 October of that year, Mr. Augustus Pechell shot an example 

 at St. Mary's, Scilly, which is in the collection of, and was 

 recorded by, the late Mr. Rodd (Zool. p. 5832). In 1873, a 

 bird answering in description to this species was obtained at 

 Southport, Lancashire (Zool. s.s. p. 4341). On the 15th of 

 August, 1882, Mr. Cordeaux obtained an adult in the flesh, 

 shot in north-east Lincolnshire (Zool. 1882, p. 392) which 

 closes for the present the list of authenticated occurrences of 

 this straggler in England. 



Li Scotland, according to Mr. R. Gray (B. West Scot. 

 p. 314), an example of the Red-breasted Snipe was shot near 

 Largo, in September, 18G7 ; and he also states that a speci- 

 men exhibited at a meeting of the Natural History Society 

 of Glasgow", on 28th December, 1869, was killed ' some 

 years ago ' in Lanarkshire ; but he makes no allusion to one 

 identified by Mr. Thomas Edward (Zool. p. G269), from a 



* Mr. C. M. Adamson ('Some More Scraps about Birds,' p. 67) says that 

 when he last saw this specimen, prior to the sale of Mr. Heysham's collection, it 

 was in a most dilapidated condition, the head being separated from the body, 

 and it was probably thrown away ; at all events it is not the same as the bird 

 sold on 11th May, 1859, Lot 145, which was in summer plumage. 



