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The Rev. R. W. J. Smart writes to me concerning 
the Scilly specimen, now in possession of Mr. Dorien 
Smith, of Tresco. 
“* Totanus Chloropygius’ was shoton 19th September, 
1882, dy the keeper at Fresco Abbey, on S. Mary's ; his 
master with friends were shooting snipe, and he observed 
the note, and flight of the bird ; and obtained leave to go 
back after it with a gun; and secured it: it was sent for 
preservation to Vingoe, the naturalist, at Penzance: and 
was 1dentified as ‘Solitarius. In my correspondence with 
Jenkinson, the following passage with reference to it occurs 
under date 3rd Fanuary, 1883, ‘Professor Newton is 
much interested about ‘Totanus Chloropygius’ (for this ts 
its proper name), the other specimen was found in a collec- 
tion with no details, as to when, or where it occurred: 
It seems Snipe-lke in its flight; uttering a‘ tweet’ as tt 
rises ; andis Fack-snipe like in its sluggishness, and pro- 
pensity to return soon to the same place. It ts said to fly 
very dexterously among woods; it 1s as well that Solt- 
tarius 1s not its proper name as it appears to be gf 
gregarious.” 
Nevertheless, as it is an American Bird, we must 
abide by the decision of what is in some sort an authorita- 
tive list of American birds; and it is named in the 
Bulletin, published by the United States, National Muse- 
um, in 1881, “ Rhyacophilus Solitarius.” 
Mr. Seebohm says the eggs are unknown. 
Professor Davie in his Check list says of them “light 
drab; marked with spots of brown, some quite dark, 
nowhere confluent ; two to four; I.40 by I.10, nests in a 
hollow on the ground.” 
