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SABINE’S SNIPE. 
Scolopax Sabini, FLEMING. SELBY. JENYNS. 
 Scolopax—A Woodcock, or Snipe. Sabini—Of Sabine. 
TuE late Nicholas Aylworth Vigors, Esq., M.P. for Carlow, 
received the original specimen of this bird as a British one 
from the Queen’s County, in Ireland, in August, 1822, and 
named it in honour of Colonel Sabine, the then chairman of 
the Zoological Society. It was shot near Portarlington, by 
the Rev. Charles Doyne, on the 22nd. of August in that 
year. Another was shot in Ireland the end of November, or 
beginning of December, 1827, on a heathy hill near Garvagh, 
in the county of Londonderry, the seat of Lord Garvagh, 
by Captain, afterwards General, Bonhan, then of the 10th. 
Hussars. Lord Garvagh has frequently seen others in the 
same locality—one on the 12th. of January, 1853, and again 
afterwards; also in 1854. Mr. Thompson, in his “Birds of 
Treland,” gives ten instances of its occurrence. 
On the 26th. of October, 1824, another, a female, was 
killed on the banks of the Medway, near Rochester, Kent. 
In the year 1836, in the summer, one was shot by the Hon. 
Mr. Harris, son of Lord Malmesbury, near Heron Court, his 
Lordship’s seat, in Hampshire. Another was obtained near 
Morpeth, in Northumberland. One appears to have been 
shot near the River Wharfe, in Yorkshire, on the 14th. of 
August, 1820, by T. G., of Clitheroe, as recorded in the 
‘Magazine of Natural History,’ volume viii, page 613; and 
on the 17th. he saw another like it, near Denton Park, the 
seat of Sir Henry dbbetson, Bart., on the bank of the same 
river, one, the beauty of which I have before referred to— 
O ‘River, River!’—‘how I love thy silver stream!’ One was 
shot at Tetney, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, as A. Fuller, 
Esq. has been so good as inform me; one in Hampshire, 
