SABINE'S SNIPE.
Seolopax Sabiui, FLEMING. SELBY. JENVNS.
Scolopax—A Woodcock, or Snipe. Sabini—Of Sabine.
THE late Nicholas Aylworth. Vigors, Esq.. M.l'. for Carlow, received
the original specimen of this bird as a British one, or indeed as then
known anywhere, from the Queen's County, in Ireland, in August,
1822, and named it in honour of Colonel Sabine, the then chairman
of the Zoological Society. It "was shot near Portarlington, by the Rev.
Charles Doyne, on the 22nd. of August in that year. Another was
shot in Ireland the end of November, or beginning of December, 1827,
on a heathy hill near (iarvagh, in the county of Londonderry, the seat
of Lord (iarvagh, by Captain, afterwards General, Bonham, then of
the 10th. Hussars. Lord (iarvagh has frequently seen others in the
same locality—one on the 12th. of January, 1853, and again afterwards;
also in 1854. Mr. Thompson, in his 1 Birds of Ireland,' gi\ ea ten
instances of its occurrence.
On the 26th. of October, 1824, another, a female, was killed on the
banks of the Medway, near Rochester, Kent. In the year 1886, in
the summer, one was shot by the Hon. Mr. H a r r i s , son of Lord
Malmosbury, near Heron Court, his Lordship's scat, in Hampshire.
Another was obtained near Morpeth, in Northumberland. On*1 appears
to have been shot near the River "Wharfe, in Yorkshire, on the 14th.
of August, 1820, by T. G., of Clitheroc, as recorded in the 'Magazine
of Natural History,' volume viii, page 043; and on the 17th., he saw
another like il, near Denton Park, the scat of Sir Henry Ibbetson,
Bart., on the bank of the same river, one, the beauty of which I
have before referred to—O ' River, River!*—'how I love thy silver
stream!* One was shot at Tctney, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, namely,
by George .leans, Esq., J a n u a r y 20th., 1843, as A. Fuller, Esq. has
been so gooil as to inform me; one in Hampshire, recorded in the
'Zoologist,' page 1300. In Sussex one, shot near Chichester harbour,
in June. 1845. In Cornwall one, in the parish of St. Just.