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BIRDS. 
The melanic variety, sabini, has been recorded as occurring 
twice in Wharfedale in August, 1820; one specimen at 
Otley on the 14th, and a second on the 17th at Denton 
Park (T. G[arnett], Loudon’s Mag., 1835, p. 614). 
Gallinago ceelestis (Frenzel). Common Snipe. 
Resident, local, breeds in more or less numbers in all suitable 
localities. Immigrants arrive, often in immense numbers, 
late in October or early in November; and during the 
winter it is much more generally distributed, but very 
variable in its movements. 
Gallinago gallinula (Z.). Jack Snipe. 
Winter visitant, common in suitable localities throughout 
the county. Usually arrives in October, departing in 
April ; an exceptionally early occurrence has been recorded 
for the 2oth of August. 
. Limicola platyrhyncha (Zemm.). Broad-billed 
Sandpiper. 
Accidental visitant from Northern Europe, of extremely rare 
occurrence. 
Hornsea Mere, one shot by T. Ellotson, April, 1863, now in 
the collection of Sir H. S. Boynton (‘T. Boynton, MS.). 
Tringa maculata Vied/Z, Pectoral Sandpiper. 
Accidental visitant from North America, of extremely rare 
occurrence. 
Filey, one (Morris, B. Birds, 1854, iv. 316). 
Teesmouth, one, Aug., 1853 (Rudd, Morris’ Nat. 1853, 
P: 275). 
Coatham, Redcar, one, Oct. 17, 1853 (Id.). 
Tringa fuscicollis Vze/. Bonaparte’s Sandpiper. 
. Tringa alpina Z. Dunlin. 
Resident, confined entirely to the high moorlands of the 
western border from north to south, over which it is 
scattered irregularly in most extremely limited numbers. 
Mr. Arthur Strickland informed Mr. Allis in 1844 that he 
had many years before taken both eggs and young on 
Stockton Common, near York. Occurs in vast numbers 
