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snow, and as many more were seen. Until the 31st of December, wood- 
cocks were considered remarkably scarce in Lord Bantry’s covers, 
in the counties of Cork and Kerry, 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.” — B. J. Mont- 
gomery, March 1850. 
Scolopax Brehmi, 
As mentioned in a letter from Sir William Jardine, on Feb. 25, 
1850 ; — “ I have just received from the neighbourhood of Enniskillen 
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 
Enniskillen, 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. 
Brehmi 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 — 
