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these in the British Islands.* I was fortunate 

 enough to become the possessor of this prize. 

 The plumage exactly resembles that of the speci- 

 men in the museum of the Zoological Society in 

 the Regent's Park, from which the first description 

 was taken by Mr. Vigors, as well as that in the 

 possession of Colonel Bonham, shot by himself in 

 Ireland, which I have since examined. Altogether 

 it has very much the look of a diminutive wood- 

 cock, but is of dark copper-colour, beautifully 

 mottled with transverse pencillings of a lighter hue : 

 the top of the head and back of the neck are of a 

 sooty black. In size it is intermediate between 

 the common and the jack-snipe, but the beak is 

 even longer in proportion than that of the former, 

 and the legs shorter. This, of course, is only 

 intended as a rough sketch of its general appear- 

 ance : for specific details, the reader is referred to 

 Yarrell's ' British Birds,' and Jenyns's c Manual of 

 British Vertebrate Animals.' 



CURLEW SANDPIPER or PIGMY CURLEW, Tringa 

 subarquata. Has been obtained frequently on the 

 coast during the autumn and winter. Scarce in 

 summer. 



KNOT, Tringa canutus. Several are killed every 

 autumn and winter, of the usual light gray colour. 



* Vide Yarrell's ' History of British Birds,' second edition. 



