622 SCOLOPACID.E. 



Dictionary, and gave a figure of it in its winter plumage in 

 his Supplement. This example, which was killed in Devon- 

 shire in the month of October, is preserved in the British 

 Museum. According to Dr. Edward Moore, and Mr. Bella- 

 my, a second example has occurred in Devonshire, which is 

 in the collection of Mr. Drew. A specimen was killed near 

 Carlisle in 183-5, which belongs to T. C. Heysham, Esq. and 

 which I have seen. A fourth example was killed at Yar- 

 mouth in the autumn of 1836, and is now in the possession 

 of the Rev. Leonard Rudd, residing in Yorkshire, who did 

 me the favour to bring his bird to London that I might see 

 it. My kind friend, J. H. Gui-ney, Esq. of Norwich, has 

 two British killed specimens of this bird in his collection, 

 one of which was obtained in Norfolk so recently as the year 

 1840. 



This bird has been killed in Sweden, and figured by M. 

 Nilsson under the name of Scolopax Paykulii in his Onii- 

 thologia Suecica, supposing it to be new, but corrected his 

 oversight in his Fauna of Scandinavia ; it has also lately been 

 included among the Birds of Greenland, by Professor John 

 Rcinhardt of Copenhagen, in a paper published in the Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society of Denmark. 



This bird is very common in the United States of Ame- 

 rica, and is described by the American Naturalists, Wilson, 

 Audubon, and Nuttall, in their respective histories of the 

 birds of that country. It was generally considered to be a 

 true Snipe, but the bill is intermediate in its length between 

 that of the true Snipes and the Sandi)ipers, and some other 

 peculiarities, in which it also differs from both, as close ex- 

 amination will show, induced Dr. Leach to propose for it 

 a generic distinction, under the term Macrorhamphus, by 

 which it is now pretty generally known. Mr. Audubon, in 

 his account of this species, says, that the Creoles of Louisiana 

 call it Becassine cle mer, an appropriate name for the bird. 



