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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Genus — Gallinago. 
229. Gallinago major. Great Snipe. 
An occasional visitor, chiefly in autumn and winter. 
Our oldest records relate to the Isle of Wight, where 
Bury met with three or four specimens in the " forties " or 
earlier. 
The oldest specimen in the Hart collection is dated 
October, 1849, the others August 9th, 1876, September 
1 6th, 1878, September 14th, 1880, and August 27th, 1883. 
Wise remarks that one or two may be seen in the 
Forest every winter. 
The Earl of Malmesbury's collection includes a local 
specimen, and Mr. J. H. Gurney also possesses an example 
from Christchurch. 
Mr. Corbin has recorded a specimen killed near Ring- 
wood on October 12th, 1901. It weighed exactly eight 
ounces, and appeared to be " a mass of oily fat." (" Zoolo- 
gist," November, 1901.) 
On the other side of the county examples have been 
met with at Bishopstoke (Bowers), Portchester and Wicor 
(Stares). Dr. Loveless shot one at Stockbridge on October 
4th, 1904. 
230. Gallinago coelestis. Common Snipe. 
Full Snipe. 
"... and greens 
The swamp, where humm'd the dropping snipe, 
With moss and braided marish-pipe." 
Tennyson's ''^ On a Mourner.''^ 
A local .resident on the mainland, largely reinforced in 
