SABINE^S, SNIPE. 
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near Eocksborongh, King^s-county."^' The same gentleman re- 
ported in January, 1846, that a Sabine snipe was shot (by Charles 
S. Ottley, Esq.) on the 17th of November, 1845, in a bog at 
Ballyconnell, county Cavan, where it had been observed during 
two years. It was stuffed by Mr. Glennon, who stated it to be 
the fifth one he had preserved.! In December that year (as I 
was informed also by Mr. Warren) Mr. Burton, of Clare, shot one 
on his property in that county. The specimen was some time 
afterwards brought to Dublin. The following notice of one of 
these birds from Mr. E. Davis, junr., of Clonmel, appeared in the 
^ Zoologist for October 1846 : — 
I have just received a specimen of Sabine^s snipe ; it was 
shot on the 31st of last month [August] in a bog near New Bir- 
mingham, about sixteen miles from this place, by J. Morton, Esq., 
of this town. It was in company with a common snipe, and rose 
with it ; its cry was similar to that of the common, and but for 
this cry it would have escaped, being, on first rising, mistaken 
for a water-rail, and allowed to go a considerable distance. It 
appears to be a male bird, and was moulting. Yarrell says the 
tail consists of twelve feathers, and that two of the toes are united 
for a short distance ; in this specimen, they are divided to the 
origin, and the tail now consists of thirteen feathers ; some grains 
of shot passed tlirough these, and probably cut away another 
feather. I have preserved the skin.''^ 
On the Ilth of Eebruary, 1847, Mr. Gubbins, of Tralee, while 
in company with Dr. Chute, fowling, shot a Sabine snipe within 
a few miles of that town ; it is now in the collection of the latter 
gentleman. A second specimen was killed on the same month 
in Kerry.! 
Tliis last makes the tenth Sabine snipe killed in Ireland of 
which such record could be obtained as is given here. Not so 
many have been procured in England ; and in Scotland none at 
* It was noticed in a letter from another correspondent as shot on the “ Good 
Island Bog, between Cloughjordan and Dunherrin.” 
t This bird was presented by Mr. Ottley to Trinity College Museum, Dublin. 
% Mr. R. Chute, March 1847. 
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