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in November, 1898, is recorded in C. & O. Birds of Cheshire, 256. 

 I examined one shot near Carno, Mont., 25th October, 1907. 



193.— RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. Phalaropus lobatus (L.). 



Rare visitor to the coasts ; recorded six times. 



Mr. F. L. Congreve has a specimen obtained on the Dee Marsh 

 in the winter, 1899-1900 (F. Fauna Cheshire, I., 390). 



194.— WOODCOCK. ;<!coloj>cu' rustkola L. 



Common from autumn to spring : breeds sparingly in all counties except 

 Anglesey. 



In the Dolgelley district Mr. C. E. Mimro Edwards reports 

 nests at Penmaen Ucha ; and Dolgj-feiliaii in 1890. 



195.— GREAT SNIPE. Gallinago media (Lath.). 



Rare winter visitor, said to have occurred in all counties. 



Beckwith in his Notes on Shropshire Birds, contributed to the 

 Field in 1885, incidentally mentions a Great Snipe obtained 

 " near Dolgelley last summer." Mr. Graham C. Heasman "WTites 

 in the same journal that one weighing 7^ ozs., was shot at Holt, 

 Flintshire, 3rd September, 1911. 



196.— COMMON SNIPE. Gallinago gallinago gallinago (L.). 



Resident ; common on bogs everywhere ; more numerous in winter. 



In 1907 Mr. C. Wilson found a nest on Eunant Moor with one 

 egg and two newly -hatched young, 21st August, — quite an 

 exceptional occurrence. In British Birds, VIII., 20, Mr. F. 

 H. L. Whish records an examjile of the melanistic form known 

 as Sabine's Snipe, shot at Rug in March, 1914. 



197. — JACK SNIPE. Limnocryptes gallinula (L.). 



Winter visitor ; fairly common in most districts, especially in the west, 

 but decreasing in some. 



198. — DUNLIN. Erolia alpina alpina (L.). 



Common on fiat coasts in autumn and winter, some remaining through 

 the summer ; breeds sparingly on the Denbigh and Merioneth moors, 

 and formerly nested on the Dee Marshes. 



