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recorded in my own notes for the last eighteen years ; 

 and which plainly shows that there is no month in 

 which one or more examples are not occasionally met 

 with : — 



January 6 



February 2 



March 1 



April 4 



May 2 



June 1 



July 2 



August 6 



September 8 



October 3 



November 3 



December 5 



Mr. Lubbock states that he has generally seen 

 these birds when snipe shooting in March, but never 

 observed one later than the 11th of April ; from the 

 above list of specimens, however, I find the 23rd and 

 30th of April and the 5th of May the latest dates of 

 their appearance in spring, and the 28th of July (a 

 bird killed at Yarmouth, and, therefore, probably a fresh 

 arrival), the earliest date of autumnal migration; the 

 usual period being between the 3rd and 12th of August. 



One example killed on the 1st of July, 1854, and 

 another on the 27th of June, 1861, in the marshes 

 between Acle and Yarmouth,^ may have been either 

 stragglers that had not paired off for the season, or birds 

 that had really remained to nest in that neighbourhood. 

 The number of specimens, also, obtained in December 

 and January is quite confirmatory of Mr. Lubbock's re- 

 mark that this sandpiper is to be found in its accustomed 

 haunts in the depth of winter, even with "deep snow 

 on the ground, and all the snipes driven out of the 

 county by stress of weather." This was particularly 

 observable during the intense frosts which prevailed in 

 the winters of 1859-60 and 1866-67, and it is remark- 

 able that at the latter period, when even our rivers 



* In Messrs. Paget's " Sketch of the Natural History of 

 Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood" this bird is described as 

 "not uncommon," 



