348 BIRDS OP NORFOLK. 



therefore continue open." Mr. Cordeaux, also, who has 

 of late been paying great attention to the parasites 

 peculiar to different birds, informs me that after a most 

 careful microscopic examination of a parasite taken 

 from a recently killed specimen* of Sabine's snipe, he 

 could find no difference between it and the ordinary 

 parasites found on the common snipe. 



MACEORHAMPHUS GEISEUS, Leach. 

 BKOWN SNIPE. 



The Eed-breasted, Brown, or Grey, Snipe, as this 

 American species is variously termed from its seasonal 

 changes of plumage, f has been procured in this county 

 in at least three well authenticated instances. The 

 first, killed at Yarmouth in the autumn of 1836,{ is 

 described by Yarrell as in the collection of the .Rev. 

 Leonard Rudd, of Yorkshire, who forwarded the bird 

 to London for his inspection. A second example is 

 thus recorded by the late Mr. Hoy in the " Annals 

 of Natural History" for 1841 (vol. vi., p. 236). "We 



* This bird, in the possession of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., was 

 shot by Mr. C. Churchill, on the 7th of May, 1868, at Wareham, 

 in Dorsetshire. On dissection Mr. Gurney found it to be a female, 

 apparently a bird of the year, and a single parasite discovered 

 amongst the feathers, was forwarded by him to Mr. Cordeaux for 

 examination. 



f Eed in summer, brown in autumn, and grey in winter. 



J This specimen is also recorded in the "Annals of Natural 

 History" for 1839 (vol. iii., p. 140), by Mr. Thomas Paine, jun., of 

 Yarmouth, who states that it " was shot on Yarmouth beach, in 

 October, 1836, and had not completely obtained its winter plumage 

 when procured." He had been favoured with a sight of this bird 

 by Mr. Leonard Eudd. 



