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Wood Sandpiper, T. gUreola ; not uncommon in the autumn, and 
sometimes in the spring months. 
Common Sandpiper, T. hypoleucos ; summer visitant. ^ 
Greonshank, T. glottis; not uncommonly met with in the same 
localities as the redshank. This bird shews the connecting 
link between the sandpiper and the godwits, in the form of 
the beak, which turns a little upwards. 
Avooet, Recurvirostra avocetta ; very rare as a Cornish bird . one 
obtained from the Land’s-end, apparently a bird of the year, 
in September, 1847. 
Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa mdanura-, occasional visitant.^ 
Bar-tailed Godwit, L, rufa ; generally to be met with in the 
autumnal months on flat sands and estuaries. In summer 
the breast of this species is bright bay, in winter white ; the 
breast of the bird of the year, until the next summer, buff. 
Euff, Machetes pugnax ; occasionally met with in the a,ntumnal 
months only in the marshes in the Land’s-end district. 
Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola ; winter visitor : universally distri- 
buted. 
Great Snipe, S. major ; very rare generally in the western counties. 
Common Snipe, 8. galUnago ; universally distributed in suitable 
localities : a brown variety, with the dorsal stripes narrower, 
occasionally met with. 
Jack Snipe, S. Gallmula ; as universally distributed as the last- 
named species. 
Sabine’s Snipe, 8. Sabini. This variety of the common snipe, as 
it is supposed to be by some, and doubted by others, was 
killed near Cariianton, in the neighbourhood of St. Coliimb, 
in January, 1862 ; also at Madron recently. 
Brown Snipe, Macrorhampus grisetts ; very rare as a British bird, 
five or six examples only having occurred : one reputed to 
have been killed in Devon. Very common on the shores of 
America. The first and only example of this rare species 
in Cornwall (a bird of the year) occimred at SciUy, on the 
3rd of October, 1857. 
Curlew Tringa, Tringa subarquata\ common in the autumnal 
months along our flat beaches. 
Knot, T. cmmtus ; a few observed on most of our flat beaches in 
the autumnal and spring seasons : in summer plumage the 
breast is bright red, in winter, white. 
