52 EESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



1866, p. 302 ; and Brooking Ebwe, ' Zoologist,' 1866, 

 p. 97, ' The Field,' 28th Nov. 1868, and ' Land and 

 Water,' 7th Jan. 1871. 



A remarkable paper on the " drumming " of the 

 Snipe, by Herr Meves, translated from the Swedish 

 by the late Mr. John WoUey, will be found in the 

 ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 1858, 

 p. 199. 



SABINE'S SNIPE, GalUnago sahini (Vigors). 



Although the claim of this bird to rank as a species 

 has not been satisfactorily established, it is inserted 

 in this part of the ' Handbook ' because it has been 

 treated as specifically distinct by Mr. Yarrell in his 

 'History of British Birds,' and because, so far as I 

 am aware, it has not been met with out of the British 

 Islands*. In ' The Field ' of Dec. 10th, 1870, I fiir- 

 nished a list of the reported occurrences of this bird 

 to that date. From this list it appears to have been 

 met with in England and Ireland in every month of 

 the year excepting June and July. Its absence from 

 Scotland, as indicated by Scottish naturalists, is re- 

 markable. 



JACK SNIPE. GalUnago gallinula (Linnaeus). 



A regular winter visitant. A few cases are on 

 record in which this bird has been seen in England 



* Since ■writing the above, I have been informed that a light- 

 coloured specimen of this bird, now in the foreign collection of the 

 British Museum, was shot near Paris by a friend of M. Jules 

 Verreaux. 



