I i SCOLOPAX RUSTICULA. 
the Woodcock is well known to breed in the New Forest. In 1844 
a nest of young was found in Monk’s Wood [ Huntingdonshire | 
by Harvey’s boy. 
§ 4265. One.—Burwash, Sussex. From Mr. Wilmot, 1846. 
Mr. Wilmot wrote :—‘‘ The Woodcock’s has the merit of being 
a British-taken egg. The old bird was flushed off the nest and shot 
by Mr. Fuller Meyrick’s keeper, in the parish of Burwash, in Sussex. 
Mr. Meyrick gave me the eggs.” 
[Mr. Wilmot’s collection, now at Cambridge, contains a fellow egg to the 
above, and his catalogue states that a third was given to Mr. Hewitson, from 
whom it most likely passed to Mr. Hancock. } 
§ 4266. One.—Loch Naver, Sutherland, 1850. [rom Mr. W. 
Dunbar, through Mr. Page, 1850. 
Mr. Dunbar told me in 1851 that this is one of his eggs, and that 
he took two nests by the side of Loch Naver. 
§ 4267. Hour.—Lindholm, Strangniis, Sédermanland, 1856. 
From Herr Alfred Hartmann. 
Given to me at Gefle, Ist September, by Herr Alfred Hartmann. 
They were taken by his brother Victor in the spring of this year. 
He has also taken Great Snipes’ eggs in the same neighbourhood. 
[§ 4268. One.—Riddlesworth, Norfolk, April, 1848. From 
Mr. Thornhill. 
The nest was in a carr, near the river which here divides the two 
counties. | 
[§ 4269. Zhree.—Buckenham, Norfolk, April, 1853. 
These were brought to me unblown by Woodrow, Mr, Francis Baring’s 
gamekeeper. | 
