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therefore continue open.” Mr. Cordeaux, also, who has 
of late been paying great attention to the parasites 
peculiar to different birds, informs me that after a most 
careful microscopic examination of a parasite taken 
from a recently killed specimen* of Sabine’s snipe, he 
could find no difference between it and the ordinary 
parasites found on the common snipe. 
MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS, Leach. 
BROWN SNIPE. 
The Red-breasted, Brown, or Grey, Snipe, as this 
American species is variously termed from its seasonal 
changes of plumage,t has been procured in this county 
in at least three well authenticated instances. The 
first, killed at Yarmouth in the autumn of 1836,} is 
described by Yarrell as in the collection of the Rev. 
Leonard Rudd, of Yorkshire, who forwarded the bird 
to London for his inspection. A second example is 
thus recorded by the late Mr. Hoy in the “ Annals 
of Natural History” for 1841 (vol. vi., p. 236). “We 
* This bird, in the possession of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., was 
shot by Mr. C. Churchill, on the 7th of May, 1868, at Wareham, 
in Dorsetshire. On dissection Mr. Gurney found it to be a female, 
apparently a bird of the year, and a single parasite discovered 
amongst the feathers, was forwarded by him to Mr. Cordeaux for 
examination. 
+ Red in summer, brown in autumn, and grey in winter. 
~{ This specimen is also recorded in the “ Annals of Natural 
History” for 1889 (vol. iii., p. 140), by Mr. Thomas Paine, jun., of 
Yarmouth, who states that it “was shot on Yarmouth beach, in 
October, 1836, and had not completely obtained its winter plumage 
when procured.” He had been favoured with a sight of this bird 
by Mr. Leonard Rudd. 
