354 ORALLY. SCOLOPACID.E. 



The present season (1846-7,) seems to be more 

 than usually favourable to the influx of the mi- 

 grant Gralke from the north. Mr. Hill mentions, 

 in a recent letter, that a friend, R. Wilkie, Esq., 

 bagged twenty-two brace of Snipe in one day's 

 shooting, in October. 



Other Scolopacidce that have been observed in 

 Jamaica are the Knit (Tringa Canutus), the Sand- 

 er ling (Calidris Arenaria), the Willet (Catoptro- 

 phorus semipalmatus), and the Little Woodcock 

 (Rusticola minor). These I have not seen, but 

 the first three, Mr. Hill writes me, are plentiful 

 there, this winter. A second species of Woodcock, 

 also, has been reported to have been met with in 

 the island. 



