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ON THE MORE IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899. 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY and N. F. TICEHURST. 

 Part XVI. 



{Continued from page 229.) 



COMMON SNIPE Gallinago coelestis (Frenzel). S. page 573. 



Weight. — Ninety shot in Slietland averaged 5.78 oz. Have 

 been killed up to 7| oz. {Ann. S.N.H., 1906, p. 53, and 1905, 

 p. 55). 



" Sabine's Snipe.''' — Some examples regarded as mutations 

 or discontinuous variations and not melanoid varieties (W. 

 P. Pycraft, Ibis, 1905, p. 289). 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER Limicola platyrhyncha 



(Temm.). S. page 577. 



Kent. — An immature female was procured near Littlestone- 

 on-Sea, on August 31st, 1901 (L. A. Curtis Edwards, Zool., 

 1901, p. 390). 



Sussex. — An immature female was shot at Rve on August 

 29th, 1904 (M. J. Nicoll, Bull. B.O.C., XV., p. 12), 



AMERICAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER Tringa maculatu 

 VieiU. S. page 579. 



Suffolk. — One was shot at Aldeburgh on September 13th, 

 1900 (E. C. Arnold, Zool, 1900, p. 521). [A "Pectoral Sand- 

 piper " was reported in the " Field " to have been shot at 

 Southwold on September 2nd, 1904 (J. H. Gurney, t.c, 1905, 

 p. 96).] 



Cornwall. — Two have been obtained on the mainland of 

 the county, the last at Porthgwarra on April 30th, 1906 (J. 

 Clark, ^.c, 1907, p. 286). 



SciLLY Isles. — Ten are recorded in place of four mentioned 

 in the " Manual." The last was shot by Captain Dorrien- 

 Smith in September, 1891 (J. Clark and F. R. Rodd, i.e., 1906, 

 p. 339). 



Ireland. — A young bird in full autumn plumage was shot 

 at Belmullet, co. Mayo, early in October, 1900 (H. Saunders, 

 Bull.B.O.C, XL, p. 34), and another was shot near the same place 

 in September, 1900 (R. J. Ussher, List of Irish Birds, p. 44). 



