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Genus MacrorHAMPHus. 
297. MacroRHAMPHUS GRIsEUS. . . . »~ Vol. IV. Pl. LXXVI. 
2ED-BREASTED or Brown SNIPE. 
In Mr. Harting’s ‘Handbook of British Birds’ (p. 144) no less 
than fifteen instances are given of the occurrence of this North- 
American species in England and Scotland. In every case, so far 
as can be ascertained, the specimens were procured in autumn, in- 
dicating that their presence here is in some way dependent upon 
a divergence from the route of their migration southward. : 
Under the terms Scolopaw, Gallinago, and Limnoeryptes those mem- 
bers of the true Snipes which do not visit Britain have been figured. 
They form part of a group of universal distribution. 
Genus ScoLoPAX. 
998, Sconopax nustioonA . 4) a e) o se  Wol, LY. Bh GX@eva, 
Woopcock. 
This well-known species of late years has become so much more 
numerous here as a resident, that although numbers still migrate 
to this country in the autumn, it is difficult to say whether “the 
first cock of the season” is an early arrival or a home-bred bird. 
Genus GALLINAGO. 
509. GALLINAGO MAJOR «9. 6. « « Vol. TV PL Exava 
Great SNIPE. 
Although this species does not, like the next, breed in this 
country, it visits us regularly every autuwn, but always earlier 
than does the Common Snipe ; and its occurrence during the spring 
months is rare. 
300. Gattrnaco scotopaciInA . . . . . Vol. lV. Pl. LX XIX. 
Common SNIPE. 
A regular winter visitant; but in favourable localities many an- 
nually remain to nest and rear their young. 
With regard to the so-called Sabine’s Snipe, it is now generally 
regarded as a melanism of the common species, but is of sufficiently 
rare occurrence to atract notice. In the ‘Field’ of Dec. 10, 1870, 
appeared a list to that date of all the known examples which had 
been obtained, since which time two or three others have been 
killed in the south of England, and, for the first time, one recently 
in Scotland. Mr. Brydges Williams’s specimen was shot at Carnan- 
ton, Cornwall, in January 1862. As to this, see ‘ Zoologist,’ 1862, 
pp. 7883 and 7938. 
