Mr. H. Seebolim on Horsfield's Woodcock. 283 



which I had never seen. Shortly after passing Bonifacio 

 we ran into a dead calm ; but in a very short time a fresh 

 westerly breeze came up_, we ceased steaming and made sail, 

 but before we had run twenty miles the wind flew to the 

 north-west, and soon hardened into a gale with heavy sea, so 

 we ran in and anchored for the night in 8 fathoms, at the 

 head of the Gulf of Sagona. The next morning, about 10, 

 we left our anchorage under steam, and on clearing the bay 

 found a light north-easterly breeze, which soon increased 

 to a strong wind dead ahead, so that, having nothing par- 

 ticular to call us to Genoa, we shaped our course for Villa- 

 franca, thus making a fair wind of it. A weary Turtle Dove 

 vainly attempted to alight on board of us, but must, I fear, 

 have eventually fallen into the sea, as it would not trust itself 

 down the wind. We got into Villafranca harbour about the 

 middle of the night, and moved round to Nice on the follow- 

 ing morning, I had not set foot ashore there since 1862, 

 and should not have known the town again, so much had it 

 increased in every direction ; but I was glad to find my old 

 friend Louis Galle, naturalist and barber, still alive and 

 flourishing in his little shop on the Cours ; he had a few 

 locally rare skins of birds, e. g. Falco vespertinus, Lanius 

 minor, &c., and assured me of a recent occurrence of Sterna 

 caspia at the mouth of the Var. He also had several inter- 

 esting reptiles alive, amongst them a beautiful specimen of 

 Coronella girondlca, which I bought and deposited safely in the 

 Regent^s Park Keptile-house on our arrival in London on 

 May 25th. I may add that all the specimens of Audouin's 

 Gull obtained by us in the Straits exhibited the peculiar 

 coloration of legs and feet that I have mentioned above. 



XXVII. — On Horsfield's Woodcock, Scolopax saturata. 

 By Henry Seebohm. 



Since I wrote my paper on the genus Scolopax (Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 127), I have had an opportunity of comparing the type of 

 S. rosenbergi in the Leyden Museum with two examples of 

 S. saturata in the same collection, and I find them to be 



