52 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 
1866, p. 302; and Brooking Rowe, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1866, 
p- 97, ‘The Field, 28th Nov. 1868, and ‘ Land and 
Water,’ 7th Jan. 1871. 
A remarkable paper on the “drumming” of the 
Snipe, by Herr Meves, translated from the Swedish 
by the late Mr. John Wolley, will be found in the 
‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 1858, 
Pp: 109. 
SABINE’S SNIPE. (Gallinago sabini (Vigors). 
Although the claim of this bird to rank asa species 
has not been satisfactorily established, it is inserted 
in this part of the ‘ Handbook’ because it has been 
treated as specifically distinct by Mr. Yarrell in his 
‘History of British Birds,’ and because, so far as I 
am aware, it has not been met with out of the British 
Islands*. In ‘ The Field’ of Dec. 10th, 1870, I fur- 
nished a list of the reported occurrences of this bird 
to that date. From this list it appears to have been 
met with in England and Ireland in every month of 
the year excepting June and July. Its absence from 
Scotland, as indicated by Scottish naturalists, is re- 
markable. 
JACK SNIPE. Gallinago gallinula (Linnzus). 
A regular winter visitant. A few cases are on 
record in which this bird has been seen in England 
* Since writing the above, I have been informed that a light- 
coloured specimen of this bird, now in the foreign collection of the 
British Museum, was shot near Paris by a friend of M. Jules 
Verreaux. 
