252 MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS —GALLINAGO GALLINULA. 
indeed, for more than ten years, until Mr, Wolley’s first season in Lapland in 
1853, they were the only examples known in England. At Yarrell’s sale this 
ege, with a Wood-Sandpiper’s (§ 3785), was brought by Mr. Holland for his 
daughter, afterwards Mrs. Wise ; but whether Dann obtained it in Lapland or 
in the Dovrefjeld (cf. supra, p. 239) cannot be determined. | 
MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS (Gmelin). 
RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 
[§ 4175. One.—Arctic Coast, east of Anderson, 3 July, 1863. 
From the Smithsonian Institution, through Prof. Baird, 
1867? 
The label shews that this egg was one of four, from which the hen bird 
(no, 36063) was shot after leaving the nest by Mr. R. R. MacFarlane. The 
nest was described as being “a few dead leaves.” This specimen was very 
much shattered when it reached me, and needed all Mr. Salvin’s skill to 
restore it. 
Mr. MacFarlane’s note (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 426) calls the species 
M. scolopaceus, and states that the few nests “were taken between the 
21st of June and the Ist of July, the eggs were always four in number, but it 
is not a very abundant bird in the Anderson section of the Polar regions. 
M. griseus (Gmel.) probably breeds in the same quarter.” The slight in- 
consistency between the dates mentioned may be due to accidental mistake ; 
but I cannot consider that Prof. Baird would have sent me this egg as that of 
M. griseus had he been in any doubt as to the species to which belonged tie 
hen bird shot at the time. It is true that, according to American authorities 
of today, it would be M. scolopaceus ; but I cannot recognize any valid dis- 
tinction between that and M, griseus. | 
GALLINAGO GALLINULA (Linu:eus). 
JACK SNIPE. 
I scarcely like to tell you about the Jack Snipe; anything I can 
say must be so poor an expression of my real exultation at the 
finding of this long-wished-for egg. It was on the 17th of June, 
1853, in the Great Marsh at Muonioniska that I first heard the 
Jack Snipe, though at the time I could not at all guess what it was. 
An extraordinary sound unlike anything I had heard before. I 
could not tell from what direction it came, and it filled me with 
