232 SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE. 



GREAT SNIPE, Scolopax major. An occasional 

 straggler. Has been killed on Pevensey levels, 

 and one was shot in the month of October, a few 

 years ago, by Mr. Trist, a wine-merchant at Brigh- 

 ton, on the Downs near the race-course, a singular 

 locality for this bird. 



COMMON SNIPE, Scolopax gallinago. Tolerably 

 abundant in the winter, on moors and extensive 

 tracts of low meadow land after the subsidence of 

 great floods. 



JACK SNIPE, Scolopax gallinula. Of less fre- 

 quent occurrence than the last, but not uncom- 

 mon. 



SABINE'S SNIPE, Scolopax Sabini. So named 

 by Mr. Vigors the first describer of the species 

 in 1822, in compliment to the late Mr. Sabine, 

 then tlje^Secretary of the Zoological Club. 



On the 5th of March, 1845, Serjeant Carter, 

 of Chichester, to whose frequent success I have 

 already alluded (vide Bee-eater), shot a very fine 

 example of this, the rarest bird, perhaps, in the 

 world. It rose from the banks of a stream called 

 the Lavant, at Appledram, near Chichester Har- 

 bour. It did not utter a cry, like the common 

 snipe a fact which coincides with the previous 

 observation of Colonel Bonham. Only six in- 

 stances of its occurrence are on record, and all of 



