Supplementary Notice of British Snipes. 27 
Art. V. Observations on the Preternatural Growth of the Incisor 
Teeth, occasionally observed in certain of the Mammalia rodéntia. 
By W. Farrar, Esq. M.D. 
Sir, 
THERE is at present deposited in the museum of the 
Barnsley Literary and Philosophical Society, a stuffed wild 
rabbit which is a fine example of this circumstance. As it 
differs from all of those described by Mr. Jenyns, perhaps 
the following notice of it may not be superfluous. 
The lower incisors and the left upper one (supposing the 
rabbit facing you) are precisely of the same length, and mea 
sure 12 in.; “the right upper one is only half the length of ite 
others, but appears to have been broken. The lower incisors 
begin to divide about an inch from the gums, and are separated 
at their summits one fourth of an inch; the upper ones di- 
verge considerably more; the longest follows the direction of 
the lips, and after completing fee parts of an exact circle 
reenters the gum. The broken one extends beyond the mouth; 
the posterior incisors are also much elongated, measuring 
three fourths of an inch. 
This specimen seems to corroborate Mr. Jenyns’s argument, 
that the disease may originate from other causes, as well as 
from the injury or loss oh: any single incisor. In this instance, I 
think it must be attributed to some derangement of the jaws, 
by which the incisors have been thrown out of contact, as the 
morbid growth evidently commenced in all the teeth at the 
same tite, I am, Sir, &c. 
Barnsley, June 2. 1829. W. Farrar. 
Art. VI. Supplement to the “ Descriptive and Historical Notice 
of British Snipes,” in the Seventh Number of the Magazine of 
Natural History. (Vol. Il. p.143.) In a Letter to the Conductor. 
By S. T. P. 
Sir, 
Baie admirer of natural history will agree with your cor- 
respondent H. V. D. on the value of complete histories of 
families of animals, and I venture to accept his invitation to 
naturalists and sportsmen, being myself a little of both, to 
communicate, through the medium of your excellent Magazine, 
a short notice of two snipes, which, from their extreme rarity, 
have not probably come under that gentleman’s observation, 
and which will, as far as I am acquainted, complete the enu- 
meration of the British species of the genus Scdlopax, as at 
present constituted. 
