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Tantalus falcinellus. ?—A male of this very rare bird was shot 
a few miles from Reading in Sept. 1793, while flying over Thames 
in company with another, and were supposed to be Bitterns. 
Having sent the description of the bird to our celebrated natu- 
ralist, Mr. Sowerby, F.L.S., who has favoured the world with it, 
accompanied with a coloured drawing, in his ‘ British Miscellany,’ 
tab. xvil., p. 35, I must refer the Society to that work. 
Scolopax arquata.—One shot at Pangbourn, Feb. 1795, and one 
at Newbury, Feb. 1811. 
S. pheopus.—Shot at Sunning, Jan. 1794. 
S. rusticola.—Visits Newbury in Oct. and returns in March. 
There cannot be a doubt but that there are two species in this 
country, having repeatedly seen them, the one nearly a third 
larger, with a huge ruff round the head, the colours darker, and 
the painter’s feather at the tip of the wing much firmer.* 
S. gallinago and S. gallinulan—Each breeds in the marshes 
about Wokingham. Supposed by many to be male and female of 
the same species, which I have not been able to contradict.t 
S.glottis.—Shot at Sunning, Dec. 1801, and Newbury, Jan. 1811. 
S. calidris.—Shot on the Loddon, Jan. 1799. 
S. lapponica.—Shot near Reading, March, 1802. 
Tringa vanellus.—Common about the heaths and fallows; 
breeding in the former. 
T’. lobata.t—One shot in a pond at Shinfield, March, 1794. 
T. ochropus.—Frequent on the banks of the Kennet. 
LT’. hypoleucos.— Very common, and called the ‘‘ Summer” and 
“ Whistling” Snipe. 
T. canutus.—Two shot near Reading, 1795. 
T’. cinclus.—In severe winters sometimes seen about Reading. 
T. calidris.— Male and female shot near Oakingham, Feb. 1795. 
Charadrius hiaticula.—Shot on Ilsley Downs, April, 1810. 
C. morinellus.— Constant visitant on our downs; spring and 
autumn ; very difficult to be shot. 
* These differences are now generally regarded as dependent upon sex and 
age.—Ep. 
+ It is to be regretted that no particulars are given of the alleged nesting of the 
Jack Snipe in the marshes about Wokingham. It is not impossible that a few pairs 
may remain in the British Islands to breed in suitable localities; but in most of 
the reported instances of their having done so, the details lack precision, and are 
quoted second-hand.—Ep. ; 
{ The Grey Phalarope.—Eb. 
