GALLINAGO GALLINULA.—G. CHLESTIS, 963. 
said he found them in a marsh where he was working, and saw the bird, which 
he knew well, and described it as Pient Taivaan-jaara, so Knoblock believed 
him, though at first suspecting from their appearance, which is abnormal, that 
they were not. In further confirmation Knoblock sent the bill of one of the 
embryos which he extracted. | 
[§ 4208. FMour.—Viksi-rota, 5 August, 1864. 
Brought on the 7th by Johan Muonioalusta. | 
[§ 4209. Four.—Katkasuando, August, 1864. 
Sent to Muoniovara on the 15th from Kiatkisuando, having been found some 
days before by Johan Lahti. | 
[§ 4210. Fouwr—Muonioalusta, 16 August, 1864. 
Brought the same day by Adam Mosesson, of Muonicalista (cf. § 4199). ] 
GALLINAGO CHLESTIS, Frenzel, 
THE SNIPE. 
§ 4211. Zwo.—Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, 1843. 
§ 4212. Hour—Whittlesey Mere, Huntingdonshire, 1843. 
I procured these myself from the fenmen. For an explanation of 
the Snipe’s very remarkable bleating noise, see Mr. Herbert’s note in 
Bennett’s Edition of White’s ‘Selborne’ [page 166]1. Does it bleat 
except at breeding time? A Snipe once dashed down at my feet and 
appeared to be in the agonies of death. I could hardly persuade 
myself that it was shamming. 
§ 4213. Seven.—Whittlesey Mere, 1844. 
I have this year seen many series of Snipes’ eggs from Whittlesey 
* (Mx. Wolley was afterwards satisfied that the explanation of Herr Meves 
(Csfvers. K. Vet. Ak. Forhandl. 1856, pp. 275-277), based upon actual experiment, 
was the correct one. ‘The mysterious noise of the wilderness was reproduced in 
a little room in the middle of Stockholm. First the deep bieat now shown to 
proceed from the male Snipe, and then the fainter bleat of the female, both most 
strikingly true to nature, neither producible with any other feathers than the 
outer ones of the tail.” (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 201.)—Ip. ] 
