144 RARE VISITANTS. 



RED-BREASTED SNIPE. Macrorhamplms griseus(Gmel. ) . 

 Hab. North America. 



One, Devonshire, Oct. 1801 : Montagu, Orn. Diet. 



One, Devonshire : Moore, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 320*. 



One near Carlisle, 25th Sept. 1835 : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 



vol. iii. p. 47. In the collection of the late Mr. Heysham. 

 One, Yarmouth, autumn 1836 : Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, 



vol. ii. p. 348. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 

 One, Yarmouth, Oct. 1841 : Hoy, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1841, 



vol. vi. p. 236. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 

 Four near Newport, Isle of Wight, 1842 : Bury, Zoologist, 



1845, p. 931 (doubtful). 

 Two seen, one killed, Horsey, Norfolk, 9th Oct. 1845: 



Gurney, Zoologist, 1846, p. 1374 ; Stevenson, op. cit. 

 One, Point of Ayr, Isle of Man, 1847 : Hadfield, Zoologist, 



1856, p. 5251. 



One on the Thames, near Battersea: Harting, Birds of 

 Middlesex, p. 195. In the collection of Mr. Bond. 



One, Scilly, Oct. 1857: Rodd, Zoologist, 1857, p. 5832; 

 1863, p. 8848. 



One, Kingsbridge, Devonshire, 1857: Nicholls, Zoologist, 



1857, p. 5791. 



One, Sands near Banff, 25th Sept. 1858 : Edward, Zoologist, 



1858, p. 6269. 



One on the Brent, Stone Bridge, Middlesex, Oct. 1862: 

 Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 195. In the author's col- 

 lection. 



that account, to be O. wilsoni ; but in no other respect does it differ 

 from our Common Snipe, and I am satisfied therefore that it is only 

 a variety of that species. At p. 51, anted, I have called attention to 

 the fact that a specimen of G. major, examined by Mr. Rodd, had 

 eighteen feathers in the tail instead of sixteen. 



* A Catalogue of the Wading Birds of Devonshire. 



