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Limosa mcocrrHaLa (G. R. Gray). Black-tailed Godwit. 
Provinces IV. [VIII.] [X.]. 
Subprovinces 11, (12), (19), (28). 
Lat. 52°-54°. “Germanic” type. Not in Ireland. 
Until lately, a few pairs were accustomed to breed annually 
in the fens of Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Lincoln ; 
but it is believed that the birds have now nearly deserted their 
former haunts, Norfolk being the only county in which there 
is a possibility that a pair or two may linger occasionally. 
The late Mr. ff. Reid, of Doncaster, has frequently told me 
that the Black-tailed Godwit used, within his recollection, to 
breed on Hatfield Moor, in which locality he once found the 
young birds himself. 
PHILOMACHUS PUGNAX (G. R. Gray). Ruff. 
Provinces [1.?] IV. VIII. [X.] XI. 
Subprovinces (3 ?), (10), 11, (12), 19, (22 ?), (23), 24. 
Lat. 51° or 52°-56°. “Germanic” type. Not in Ireland. 
Like the former, this bird is rapidly disappearing before the 
advance of cultivation and drainage. 
Montagu was informed that Ruffs were not uncommon in the 
fens about Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, before they were 
drained. In Suffolk the bird appears to have become quite ex- 
tinct; but Mr. Stevenson says that a few pairs still breed in east- 
ern Norfolk, where, happily, they are strictly preserved. It is 
extinct in Huntingdon, Cambridge, aad Northampton, and pro- 
bably also in Lincolnshire. In Yorkshire the Ruff appears to 
have ceased to breed, though Mr. Reid remembered them to 
have been quite plentiful. Mr. Hancock and the Rev. H. B. 
Tristram tell me that the bird has become extinct in Durham, 
but still breeds occasionally in Northumberland. 
ScoLopax RusticoLa (Linn.). Woodcock. 
Provinces [.-V. VIII.-XVII. - 
Subprovinces 2-15, 19-26, 27, 28, 29-35. 
Lat. 50°-59°. “Scottish” type, or Northern. 
The nest of the Woodcock is by no means so rare as is gene- 
rally supposed. The bird is reported as breeding occasionally in 
