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SABINE'S SNIPE. 



Scolopax Sabini, FLEMING. SELBY. JENYNS. 



ScolopaxA "Woodcock, or Snipe. Sabini Of Sabine. 



THE late Nicholas Aylworth Vigors, Esq., M.P. for Carlow, 

 received the original specimen of this bird as a British one 

 from the Queen's County, in Ireland, in August, 1822, and 

 named it in honour of Colonel Sabine, the then chairman of 

 the Zoological Society. It was shot near Portarlington, by 

 the Rev. Charles Doyne, on the 22nd. of August in that 

 year. Another was shot in Ireland the end of November, or 

 beginning of December, 1827, on a heathy hill near Garvagh, 

 in the county of Londonderry, the seat of Lord Garvagh, 

 by Captain, afterwards General, Bonhan, then of the 10th. 

 Hussars. Lord Garvagh has frequently seen others in the 

 same locality one on the 12th. of January, 1853, and again 

 afterwards; also in 1854. Mr. Thompson, in his "Birds of 

 Ireland," gives ten instances of its occurrence. 



On the 26th. of October, 1824, another, a female, was 

 killed on the banks of the Medway, near .Rochester, Kent. 

 In the year 1836, in the summer, one was shot by the Hon. 

 Mr. Harris, son of Lord Malmesbury, near Heron Court, his 

 Lordship's seat, in Hampshire. Another was obtained near 

 Morpeth, in Northumberland. One appears to have been 

 shot near the River Wharfe, in Yorkshire, on the 14th. of 

 August, 1820, by T. G., of Clitheroe, as recorded in the 

 'Magazine of Natural History,' volume viii, page 613; and 

 on the 17th. he saw another like it, near Denton Park, the 

 seat of Sir Henry Ibbetson, Bart., on the bank of the same 

 river, one, the beauty of which I have before referred to 

 'River, River!' 'how I love thy silver stream!' One was 

 shot at Tetney, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, as A. Fuller, 

 Esq. has been so good as inform me; one in Hampshire, 



