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specimen was shot near Hamilton, in October, 1842; and 
one was supposed to have been seen at Hungry Bay, a few 
years afterwards, by Mr. Fozard. 
AMERICAN SNIPE (Scolopax Wilson). These birds are 
more or less common during the autumnal migration ap- 
pearing in the month of October. A few remain till the 
month of January. Several couple were killed in May, 
1847, on their northern migration. On the 13th of October, 
1849, an immense number of snipe appeared, and remained 
for a few days, when they again took their departure to the 
south. I shot two at Brackish Pond, on the 21st of March, 
1850, and saw another on the 16th of April, at the same 
place. This species has sixteen tail feathers. On the 6th 
of November, 1848, I killed a snipe with eighteen tail 
feathers, and a few days before that, one with an imperfect 
tail of seventeen feathers. What were they? Pembroke 
Marsh was a sure find for snipe, and I think they were the 
finest and fattest birds I ever killed. 
THE ENGLIsH SNIPE (S. gallinago). I shot one of this 
species, on the 24th of December, 1847. It precisely 
answered to the description of the S. gallinago, and had 
but fourteen tail feathers. I shot another specimen, also 
with fourteen tail feathers, on the 29th of December, 1847 
Both these birds I got in Pembroke Marsh; and there 
cannot be the least doubt about the bird, and the propriety 
of adding it to the Bermuda list. 
Brown Sniee (Macrorhamphus griseus). First shot by 
Captain Orde, on the 29th of September, 1847, at Harris’s 
Bay. Another specimen was killed by Mr. C. Fozard, on 
the 21st of August, 1848. I never met with this bird 
myself in the Bermudas. 
