GALLINAGO MAJOR.—SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA. per | 
[§ 4262. Four.—Bod6, 24 June, 1857. “P. G.’ From 
Messrs. F. and P. Godman. 
Given to us at Cambridge, on the 10th of November, 1857, and I extract 
the following from Mr. Perey Godman’s note-book :— 
“Out all the morning at the upper end of the marsh close under the 
mountains to look for Great Snipe... After dinner went out towards the 
church and looked over a piece of willows where we had taken a Redshank’s 
nest. Here the dog put up a Great Snipe, and on going to the place we found 
she had a nest with four eggs. I immediately went home for the guns and 
we then went up to the nest. My brother was to have the first shot, as he 
saw the nest first. The bird got up and his gun missed fire, and the bird 
went so far we could not mark it down exactly, so we were obliged to leave 
the nest. We then looked further up the marsh and found a Whimbrel’s 
nest with three eggs and a young bird . . . We then returned to the Great 
Snipe’s nest. The bird was again on it. This time we both shot and killed 
her. My brother took the eggs and blew them in the evening. They had 
been sat on about two or three days.” 
This was the first Great Snipe’s nest found by the Messrs. Godman. The 
duly labelled skin of the bird shot from it was shewn to the ornithologists 
who met in Cambridge in the following November, when it was admitted 
by all to be undoubtedly that of Gallinago major. | 
[§ 4263. Zwo.—Toorukkansk, Jennesei Valley, 18 June, 1895. 
From Mr. C. B. Hill, 1896. 
I understood Mr. Hill to say that they also met with the Pintailed Snipe, 
but did not find its nest. These two eggs do not look as if they came from 
the same nest; but Mr. Popham states (Ibis, 1897, p. 103) that though 
certain swamps in the forest seemed full of Great Snipes, only two clutches of 
their eggs were found, ‘‘ both in dry places among the trees.”’] 
SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA, Linneus. 
WOODCOCK. 
§ 4264, One-—New Park, New Forest, Hampshire. From 
Miss Hurt, in or before 1844. 
This valuable egg was presented by the Miss Hurts, of Alder- 
wasley, from their collection. It came originally from New Park in 
the New Forest, the seat of Colonel Thornhill, whence it was 
brought by Miss Anne Hurt. I am informed by Mr. Dawson! that 
‘ [Of Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, a well-known entomologist of thuse 
days.—Ep. | 
