SNIPE. 91 



" Sabine's Snipe " (Scolopax sabini, Vigors), of which 

 numerous specimens have been obtained from time 

 to time in Dorsetshire, chiefly about Poole and in 

 the valley of the Frome, between Wareham and 

 Dorchester, is now generally regarded as a variety 

 approaching to melanism of the Common Snipe. 

 Mr. T. M. Pike shot one at the mouth of the Frome 

 Eiver in August 1868. During the past summer 

 (1887) I flushed one of these birds twice in a 

 meadow adjoining the river between Chamberlayne's 

 and Hyde. Its flight was slow and somewhat heavy 

 in comparison with the usual flight of the Snipe, 

 doubtless because it was a young bird, like the 

 majority of specimens obtained. 



JACK-SNIPE. Gallinago gallinula, (L.) 



Yarrell, iii. p. 351; Harting, p. 52; Dresser, vii. p. 653; 

 Scolopax gallinula, Seebohm, ii. p. 247 ; Pulteney's List, 

 p. 14; Limnocryptes gallinula, Ibis List, p. 167. 



A regular winter visitant, but, unlike the Common 

 Snipe, never remains to breed. 



DUNLIN. Tringa alpina, (L.) 



Yarrell, iii. p. 377 ; Harting, p. 49 ; Dresser, viii. p. 21 ; Seebohm, 

 iii. p. 184 ; Ibis List, p. 169 ; Pulteney's List, p. 15 ; Tringa 

 cinclus (winter plumage), Ibid., p. 15. 



The Dunlin is a very common spring and autumn 

 visitant. It is especially abundant in the Poole 

 estuary, and found everywhere round the coast, in 



