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Grreenland and other circumpolar regions ; in winter passes 

 down the west coast of Europe to North AMca. 



Red-neeked Phalarope ; a casual visitor in autumn, re- 

 corded from Swanpool, Helford, Land's End and Scilly ; one 

 specimen shot on Dosmare Pool and another at Looe ; several 

 seen on Helford River in October, 1891, in a large flock of Grray 

 Phalaropes ; an arctic circumpolar breeder. 



Woodcock ; a winter visitor ; a solitary specimen seen at 

 Stratton early in August, 1890, but the first flights generally 

 arrive about the second week in October, and the birds leave us 

 early in March ; very abundant at Scilly where the latest date is 

 March 1st; a nest with four eggs found at Calliugton, 1853; 

 breeds in most parts of the British Isles and on the continent 

 from the limit of tree growth down to northern Italy ; in the 

 Mediterranean chiefly a winter visitor. 



Great Snipe ; a casual autumn visitor, occasionally met with 

 on the moors of the west ; one specimen obtained in Scilly in 

 1877 ; recorded from St. Austell and Camelford ; breeds in Scandi- 

 navia, Denmark, and Northern Grermany ; scarcely known as a 

 migrant in the west of France ; evidently an annual autumn 

 visitor in small numbers to England. 



Common Snipe ; resident, breeding locally in favourable 

 situations, nests having been found during the past five years 

 at St. Cleer, at St. Stephens-in-Branwell, and near Laneast ; 

 mainly, however, a winter visitor, flocks beginning to arrive 

 early in September, and culminating as a rule the first week 

 in October, and often remaining till March or even middle 

 April ; occurs in large numbers in Scilly ; breeds in the marshes 

 of the eastern counties, and generally distributed in the north and 

 in Ireland ; nests abundantly in Iceland, the Eaeroes, and through- 

 out northern and temperate Europe to the marshes of northern 

 Italy ; in winter reaches as far south as Senegambia ; a very dark 

 form of the birds known as Sabine's Snipe, has been occasionally 

 shot in the county. 



Jack Snipe ; a winter visitor, generally distributed through- 

 out the wet moorlands of the county ; fairly common in Scilly ; 

 earliest record 3rd September, but the heaviest arrivals occur in 

 October ; departs northward early in April ; not known to nest 



