APPENDIX. | Birds. 359 
a few days at most sufficing. Perhaps we have not suitable 
localities for them. 
Macueres pucnax [Ruf]. 
Rare. Three, I think, have been obtained, all birds of the year, 
and all in autumn. 
Scotopax Rusticona [ Woodcock]. 
Though a pair or two have been known to breed, the woodcock can 
hardly rank with us but as a winter visitor. In some seasons 
they are more numerous than in others. Does the snow affect 
the coloring of this species? My reason for asking this ques- 
tion is because, in very severe and snowy weather, I have seen 
many of them of a remarkably light color; but in milder sea- 
sons, and when there were little or no storms or frost, I have 
never seen any of them with the same gray-like coating. 
Scotopax GaLLinaeo [Common Snipe]. 
Though many of these breed and remain with us all the year, still 
we receive great additions annually from elsewhere, and gener- 
ally toward the end of autumn; but neither during summer nor 
winter are they so plentiful as they were. Drainage is said to 
be the cause of their comparative scarcity. 
Scotopax erisza [The Brown Snipe]. 
Some specimens of this bird have been met with near Banff, but it 
is rarely seen. 
Scotopax GALLINULA [Jacksnipe]. 
A winter visitor only, so far as Iam aware, and by no means so nu- 
merous as the preceding. The jacksnipe would appear to be a 
solitary animal; at least, I have never seen more than two of them 
together (of course in winter), but more commonly only one; in 
fact, they are nearly always seen single. Unlike the others, how- 
ever, I have seen them return to the same spot three times, after 
being as often fired at. 
Trinea suBarquata [Curlew Sandpiper]. 
I have only met with one specimen of which I can speak with cer- 
tainty. 
Trinca canutus [Knot]. 
A few generally visit us every autumn on their southward passage. 
They are remarkably easy of approach. 
Trinea minvta [Little Stint]. 5 
A very fine little fellow. I once had a desperate hunt after one. 
See p. 139. 
