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another example having been recently obtained near Barnstaple. — Murray A. Mathew; 

 Chagford, Exeter, October 1, 1868. 



Solitary Snipes near Parracombe. — Since ray last communication two more solitary 

 snipes have been shot near Parracombe, and were, it is said, in excellent condition. — 

 Gervase F. Mathew ; H.M.S. ' Britannia,' Dartmouth, October 3, 1868. 



Solitary Snipe in Wiltshire. — On Wednesday, the 23rd of September, while 

 beating a piece of potatoes on a dry sand Dear Milton Pewsey, Wilts, for partridges, 

 I moved and killed a fine specimen of the solitary snipe, in beautiful plumage and 

 exceedingly good condition : the weight was 7| ounces. — '■Field'' Newspaper. 



Solitary Snipe on Salisbury Plain. — A fine specimen of the solitary snipe was 

 killed on my shooting, on the 24th of September, in some heather on Salisbury Plain, 

 and is now being preserved by Mr. King, Warminster. — Alex. P. E. Powell ; Hurdcott 

 House, Salisbury. — Id. 



Solitary Snipe. — On the 23id of September I saw one of these birds hanging at a 

 game-dealer's shop, which I bought, he remarking that it was a very fine snipe, as it 

 certainly was: it is the third I have met with sent accidentally for sale with other 

 game. All these, and several others that have come under my observation, which have 

 been killed during this month in various years, are young birds, hatched the previous 

 summer, in the first feathers they get after the downy state. — C. M. Adamson. — Id. 



Solitary Snipe in Hampshire. — On the 2nd of September I received a great snipe, 

 in the flesh, from Christchurch, in Hampshire; another was shot the same day near 

 Beading. On the 20th a third specimen occurred at Christchurch, as 1 learned from 

 Mr. E. Hart, the birdstuffer ; and I heard of yet another exposed for sale in Leaden- 

 hall Market, on Saturday, the 26ih. The great snipe differs from the common in 

 being more bulky and weighing more, in having much larger legs and a shorter bill, 

 and in having the belly and abdomen always barred with brown and white. It has 

 besides sixteen tail-feathers, and the eye is somewhere higher in the head lhan in the 

 common snipe. They seem to have visited us this year in more than usual numbers ; 

 they were similarly plentiful in this county (Durham) and in Norfolk in the autumn of 

 1826, which a friend remembers to have also been a season of heat and drought. — Id. 



Solitary Snipe in Devonshire. — The snipe I wrote to you about as being killed 

 here (Wilheridge, North Devon), now some fortnight since, was named " solitary" by 

 the gentleman who shot it, he having killed similar snipe before in Finland. The. 

 weight was seven ounces and a half, about double that of the ordinary snipe, and of 

 which some specimens may be found all the year round here. No one that I have, 

 inquired of has ever heard of such a species of snipe visiting the neighbourhood, 

 before. — Id. 



Occurrence of the Ringed Guillemot in three instances off the Dublin Coast. — 

 Shot two ringed guillemots in the beginning of 1868; one on the 12th of February, 

 the other on the 28th of March: both were in their first winter plumage, and both 

 fully ringed and bridled wilh white. On examining some birds of Mr. W. B. Atkins's,. 

 I found he had one of these birds in similar plumage, shot in the autumn of 1S67 off 

 this coast. — H. Blake-Knox ; September 7, 1868. 



Fulmar Petrel at Flamborough.—Ov the 14th of October Mr. Knaggs, fisherman, 

 brought Mr. Bailey a live Fulmar, with the following history :— It had kept about his 

 vessel for two or three days ; the first time they saw it they were about twenty miles 

 from Flamboiough Head, then again the following morning about thirty miles. If a 



