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farce to talk of the snipe-shooting in Bermuda; but occasionally large 
flights come in, and really fair bags are made, such as six or nine couple 
a-day to two guns. Pembroke Marsh is the great place for them, anda 
few usually take up their quarters in Devonshire Swamp. They are 
very good eating at first, but soon become rank from feeding in the 
brackish mud. They lie closer than our European snipe, and a dog is a 
sine qua non in the thick scrub-grown marshes. Their note is very sim- 
ilar, but they differ somewhat in plumage, especially in having sixteen 
tail-feathers instead of fourteen like our bird. 
102. Gallinago media, Leach. European Snipe; Common Snipe. 
Scolopax gallinago, Linn., Gm., Briss. 
Gallinago media, Leach. 
Gallinago scolopacina, Bp., Naum., Gould. 
Gallinago uniclavata, Hodgs. 
Gallinago brehmi, Kaup, Jard. 
Gallinago delamotti, Bail. 
Gallinago sabini, Vig., Gould. 
We have Colonel Wedderburn’s authority for the occurrence of this 
bird in Bermuda. He says (Nat. in B., p. 43): “I shot one of this spe- 
cies on the 24th December, 1847. It precisely answered to the descrip- 
tion of the S. gallinago and had but fourteen tail-feathers. I shot an- 
other specimen also with fourteen tail-feathers on the 29th December, 
1847. Both these birds I got in Pembroke Marsh, and there cannot be 
the least doubt about the bird and the propriety of adding it to the 
Bermuda list.” 
Genus MACRORHAMPHUS, Leach. 
103. Macrorhamphus griseus, (Gm.) Leach. Red-breasted Snipe; Grey 
Snipe. 
Scolopax grisea, Gm., Lath., Temm., Flem., Jen., Schl. 
Scolopax (Macrorhamphus) grisea, Bp., Nutt. 
Macrorhamphus griseus, Leach, Steph., Eyt., Keys. & Blas., Gray, Bp., Bd., 
Coop. & Suck., Salv., and late authors, 
Limosa grisea, Schl. 
Scolopax noveboracensis, Gm., Lath., Wils., Sw. & Rich., Aud., Gir. 
Totanus noveboracensis, Sabine. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr., Bd., Elliot, Coues, Dall & Bann. 
Length, 10; wing, 53; tail, 24. 
Hab.—The whole of North America, Greenland, Mexico, West Indies, 
Central America. Much of South America, Brazil, Chili. Of frequent 
casual occurrence in Europe. (Coues.) 
One “shot by Captain Orde on the 29th September, 1847, at Harris’s 
Bay; another was killed by Mr. C. Fozard on the 21st August, 1848” 
