CHARADRIID&. 621 
THE RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 
MacroruAmpPHus GRisEus (J. F. Gmelin). 
The trivial name of this American species is somewhat unfortu- 
nate, for the bird does not belong to the Sub-family Scolopacine, 
but to the Totaninz, among which it now finds its proper place. 
Its occurrence in Great Britain was first noticed by Montagu, who 
described and figured—under the name of Brown Snipe—a bird 
which was killed in Devon in October of a year prior to 1802, and 
now in the British Museum. Two or three more specimens are said 
to have been procured in the above county, and one has been shot 
in the Scilly Islands ; Middlesex has produced two, Norfolk three, 
Lincolnshire one (on August 15th 1882), Lancashire one (now in 
the Preston Museum), and another in September 1891 ; while on the 
Cumberland side of the Solway a young bird, afterwards in Hey- 
sham’s collection, was taken on September 25th 1835. All these 
were obtained in autumn. In Scotland, a young bird (now in the 
Edinburgh Museum), was shot near Largo, Fifeshire, in September 
1867; a correctly identified example is said to have been killed in 
Lanarkshire ; and on September 2nd 1891 one was obtained in 
Argyll. In Ireland, in 1893, an immature female was shot on 
September 29th in Queen’s County, and an adult female on 
October 11th in co. Tipperary. 
On the mainland of Europe the Red-breasted Snipe has been 
found in Denmark, Picardy and Normandy; while on the other side 
