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and has been preserved. It appeared to have died from want, as 
it was quite uninjured. The late Mr. Widdowson’s diary con- 
tains a record of one killed at Little Dalby on Sept. 28th, 1868. 
On September 2nd, 1885, Mr. A. Ross, of Leicester, whilst 
shooting over the Garthorpe Estate, near Melton Mowbray, 
killed a Great or ‘“ Solitary” Snipe, which his dog pointed in 
a clover field, and, as is usual with this species, at some con- 
siderable distance from water. The specimen, a fine dark- 
plumaged one, weighing nearly 8 oz., was presented by Mr. Ross 
to the Leicester Museum. This was recorded in ‘ The Field’ for 
Sept. 12,1885. I saw, in the possession of a man named Ludlam, 
a Great Snipe which had been shot by Mr. J. C. A. Richards, 
in a field at Blaby, during the first week in September, 1885. 
Mr. G. H. Finch, M.P., of Burley-on-the-Hill, Oakham, Rutland, 
reports that a specimen was shot in his neighbourhood. 
Gallinago celestis (Frenzel). Common Snipe; Full Snipe.— 
Generally distributed, but not so common as formerly. 
Limnocryptes gallinula (Linn). Jack Snipe; Half Snipe.— 
A winter visitant, generally distributed, but not very common. 
Tringa alpina, Linn. ODunlin; Stint.— An uncommon 
spring and autumn visitant. Specimens have been obtained at 
Bosworth, Loughborough, and Saddington Reservoir. Mr. 8. 
Bevans showed me four mounted specimens which were shot by 
him in the Abbey Meadow seven or eight years ago, and I pur- 
chased one which was said also to have been killed in the Abbey 
Meadow some years ago. Two others, which I sawin the flesh in 
winter plumage, were shot at Fleckney by Mr. C. Allsop on 
Oct. 20th, 1885. 
Tringa minuta (Leisler). Little Stint—Two of these rare 
little waders were shot out of a party of five on September 22nd, 
1885, at Saddington Reservoir, by my friend Mr. Macaulay, who 
generously presented them to the Leicester Museum. The 
largest of the two, au immature female, containing small eggs, 
weighed 352 grs.; total length, 6} inches; bill, 8-10ths of an inch; 
tarsus, 17-20ths of an inch; carpus to tip of wing, 44inches. The 
other, also apparently an immature female, but rather difficult to 
determine, weighed 3 oz. or 330 grs.; extreme length (tip of bill 
to end of tail), 52 inches; bill, 8-10ths of an inch; tarsus, 8-10ths 
of an inch ; carpus to tip of wing, 4 inches. The occurrence of 
these was noted in the ‘ Field’ of October 10th, 1885. 
