168 BRITISH BIRDS. 



EREUNETES GRISEUS. 

 RED-BREASTED SNIPE, 



(PLATE 68.) 



Scolopax grisea, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788, winter plumage) ; et auctorum 

 plurimomm (Bonaparte), (Cassin), (Baird, Brewer fy Ridgway), (Salvin), 

 (Sclater), (Coues), &c. 



Scolopax noveboracensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788, summer plumage). 



Scolopax leucophsea, Vieitt. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 358 (1816, nee Lath.). 



Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.), Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. fyc. Brit. Mus. p. 31 

 (1816). 



Scolopax paykullii, Nilss. Orn. Suec. ii. p. 106 (1817). 



Totanus ferrugineicollis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1099 (1823). 



Limosa scolopacea, Say, Long's Exped. ii. p. 170 (1823). 



Totanus noveboracensis (Gmel.), Sabine, Frankl. Journ. p. 687 (1828). 



Macrorhamphus punctatus, Less. Traite d"Orn. p. 556 (1831). 



Limnodromus grisea (Gmel.), Lembeye, Ao. de la Isl. de Cuba, p. 91 (1850). 



Scolopax longirostris, Bell, Ann. Lye. New York, v. p. 3 (1852). 



Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (Say), Lawr. Ann. Lye. Neio York, v. p. 4, pi. 1 (1852). 



Limosa grisea (Gmel.), Schl. Mus. Pays-Has, Scolop. p. 26 (1864). 



Macrorhampus griseus, var. scolopaceus, Coues, Check List, no. 415 a (1873). 



The Red-breasted Snipe was first described by Pennant about 1787, 

 from examples obtained near New York, for which he was indebted to the 

 collection of American birds belonging to Mrs. Blackburn (hereinbefore 

 mentioned, p. 137). In 1813 it was added to the list of British birds by 

 Montagu, an example having been shot out of a small flock which appeared 

 on the coast of Devonshire in October 1801 (Orn. Diet.). Since that date 

 at least a dozen records of its occurrence in our islands appear to be well 

 authenticated ; they may be briefly summarized as follows : One in 

 Devonshire (Moore, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 321) ; one near Carlisle, 

 25th of September, 1835 (Yarrell, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 47) ; one Yarmouth, 

 October 1836 (Stevenson, ( Birds of Norfolk/ ii. p. 348) ; one Yarmouth, 

 October 1840 (Gurney, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 236) ; two seen, 

 one of which was shot, at Hornsey, Norfolk, on the 9th of October 1845 

 (Gurney, ' Zoologist/ 1846, p. 1374) ; one killed some years previous to 

 1866 on the banks of the Thames, at Battersea (Harting, B. of Middlesex, 

 p. 195) ; one previous to 1857 near Kingsbridge, Devonshire (Nicholls, 

 ' Zoologist/ 1857, p. 5791) ; one St. Mary's, Scilly, on the 3rd of October 

 1857 (Rodd, 'Zoologist/ 1857, p. 5832); one was wounded, but after- 

 wards escaped, near Banff, on the 25th of September, 1858 (Edwards, 

 ' Zoologist/ 1858, p. 6269) ; one Dunbarnie Links, near Largo, Scotland, 

 in September 1867 (Gray, ' B. West of Scotland/ p. 314) ; one on the 

 banks of the Clyde, in Lanarkshire, killed some years previous to 1870 



