SNIPE. 143 
AMERICAN STINT. Tringa pusilla, Wilson*. 
Hab. North and South America; West Indies. 
One, Marazion Marsh, Cornwall, 10th Oct. 1853: Rodd, 
Zoologist, 1854, p. 4297; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds (pre- 
face to 3rd edition). In the collection of Mr. Vingoe. 
One, Northam Burrows, Devon, Sept. 1869: Rodd, The 
Field, 23rd Oct. 1869; Zoologist, 1869, p. 1920; Rickards, 
Zoologist, 1870, p. 2025. In the collection of Mr. Rick- 
ards tT. 
WILSON’S SNIPE. Gallinago wilsoni, Temminck. 
Hab. North and South America. 
One, hitherto unrecorded, killed in the grounds of Mr. Charles 
Pascoe Grenfell, at Taplow Court, Bucks, Ist Aug. 1863. 
It was forwarded in the flesh to Mr. Gould for identifica- 
tion ; and while in his possession I had an opportunity of 
examining itt. 
* T. pusilla, Wilson, Am. Orn. v. p. 32, pl. 37 (1812), not of 
Linneus. 7’. minutilla, Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. xxxiv. p. 466 (1819). 
T. wilsont, Nuttall, Man. ii. p. 121 (1834). 
t+ Mr. Rickards kindly brought this specimen to London, shortly 
after he had skinned it, in order that I might see it. We compared 
it with skins in my collection from North and South America and the 
West Indies, and were satisfied of its identity with Wilson’s species. 
t+ Although this specimen has but fourteen feathers in the tail, 
like our Common Snipe, instead of sixteen, which is the usual num- 
ber in G. wilsoni, the general character of the plumage and par- 
ticularly the colour of the axillary plumes (which are closely barred 
across both webs) show that it is referable to the American and not 
to the European species. It may have lost the outer tail-feather 
on each side, or may never have possessed more than fourteen ; for it 
appears that in some species the number of tail-feathers is not 
always canstant. While this sheet was passing through the press, a 
Snipe was forwarded to Mr. Gould by Mr. Rodd, of Penzance, which, 
possessing sixteen feathers in the tail, was thought, chiefly on 
