350 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
which he did not shoot at as it was raining hard at the 
time, and from a hurried glance at the one he had 
killed, he took it for nothing more than a young 
redshank. 
This species is abundant in the United States of 
America, where it frequents the sea shore more than 
marshy ground, and is rarely seen inland. According 
to Yarrell, owing to the bill being “intermediate in 
its length between that of the true snipe’s and sand- 
piper’s, and some other peculiarities in which it also 
differs from both,” it was placed in a separate genus by 
Dr. Leach under the term Macrorhamphus, which has 
been generally adopted. It is the red-breasted snipe 
of Wilson, and according to Audubon it is termed 
Bécassine de mer by the Creoles of Louisiana. Mr. 
Osbert Salvin, who found it a very common wader on 
the sand-banks of the Pacific coast of Guatemala,* 
remarks—“ I used always to see it feeding in the open 
where there was no cover whatever, its habits strongly 
contrasting in this respect with the common snipe to 
which it is closely allied.” 
TRINGA SUBARQUATA, Temminck. 
CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
This species, known also as the Pigmy Curlew, is not 
unfrequently met with on our coast, both in spring and 
autumn, and more particularly in the latter season. 
From my own observations, more specimens seem to be 
obtained in September and October than at any other 
time. Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear, in their “ Cata- 
logue of Norfolk and Suffolk Birds,” remark (1825) 
* See “ Ibis” for 1865, second series, p. 191. 
