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snow, and as many more were seen. Until the 31st of December, wood- 

 cocks were considered remarkably scarce in Lord Bautry's covers, 

 in the counties of Cork and Keny, but they became " somewhat more 

 plentiful " in the severe weather of the following month, so that fifteen 

 brace and a half were killed in a day by two guns. 



Great Snipe, vol. ii. p. 257. 



" Mr. T. Spencer Lindsay, of Hollymount House (county Mayo), 

 assured me that his gamekeeper had killed a brace and a half of ' soli- 

 tary snipe ' in the last two seasons ; he knew the bird well. The 

 gamekeeper also described it accurately, and particularly remarked its 

 having two more tail-feathers than the common snipe." — R. J. Mont- 

 gomery, March 1850. 



ScoLOPAX Beehmi, 



As mentioned in a letter from Sir William Jardine, on Feb. 25, 

 1850 ; — " I have just receivedJ'rom the neighbourhood of EnniskiUen 

 a snipe, with its outer tail-feathers longest, and sixteen feathers in the 

 tail. This to all intents is S. Brehmi." The bird was sent to Jardine 

 Hall by C. A. Gordon, Esq., of the 57th regiment, then stationed at 

 EnniskiUen, whose attention had been specially called to the subject 

 by Sir William Jardine. In this author's work, entitled ' Contribu- 

 tions to Ornithology,' for 1849 and 1850, full particulars of the S. 

 Brelimi will be found. 



Broad-billed Sandpiper, vol. ii. p. 282, 



Was several times seen by Capt. May (late of the Inniskilling dra- 

 goons), during his sporting tour on the coast of Norway, in the sum- 

 mer and autumn of 1849. He was attracted by the peculiar snipe- 

 like markings on the head of the bird, and, on seeing the specimen in 

 the Belfast Museum, immediately recognized it as being of the same 

 species. Among the places where they were seen was the extremity of 

 a fresh-water lake, near the Salten Fiord, where they may have been 

 breeding (July 11). 



Purple Sandpiper, vol. i. p. 803. 



It is there remarked that it " regularly inhabits certain parts of the 

 coast in autumn and winter ;" to which it might have been added — 



