the 25th September, 1835, and passed into the collection of
the late T. C. Hey sham.* A fourth example, tilled at
Yarmouth in October, 1836, became the property of the Rev.
Leonard Rudd, residing in Yorkshire, who did the Author
the favour to bring his bird to London th a t be might see jt.
Mr. J . H . Gurney has recorded" a male, now in his collection,
which was obtained near Yarmouth in October, 1840 (Ann,
and Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 236).
On the 9th October, 1845, a male, changing like the Other
October birds from summer to winter plumage, was shot by
Mr. Rising of Hornsey, in whose collection it still is, a companion
bird escaping. Mr. Harting records (B. of Middlesex,
p. 195) one in the collection of Mr. E. Bond, killed some
years ago on the banks of the Thames near Battersea.; and
one in his own collection shot on the Brent in 'October, 1862.
One is stated to have been killed previous to 1857,” near
Kingsbridge, Devon shire fZ ool. p. 579X|,-:and on the Bid
October of that year, Mr. Augustus Pechell shot an example
at St, Mary’s. SciHy. which is ip the collection.;of, and was
recorded by, the late Mr^Rodd (Zool. p. ,5832). In 1873, a
bird answerin^in description to this species -was obtained at
Southport, Lancashire-(ZQoh.s.!s. p. 4341*). On the 15th ,©f
August, 1882, Mr. Cordeaux obtained an adult in the flesh,
shot in north-east Lincolnshire .{Zool. *1*882,, p/392) which
closes for the present the list of authenticated occurrences §|f
this straggler in England.
In Scotland, according''"to 'Mr. R. ‘Gray"(B. We#'*Scot,
p. 314), an example-of the Red-breasted Snipe was. shet^near
Largo, in September, 1867 ; and he alsootafes that a,<speei-
men exhibited.-at a meeting-of-th%^Na.tnra,l History.Society
of Glasgow, p n ‘28ijj Depp^er-, 1*3 69* | was tolleji^so.me
years ago’ in Lanarkshire-; but he makes noj allusion to one
identified by Mr. Thomas Edward'>,(‘Zooh p. 6269), from a
gftf Mr. jD. M. Adamson f .f a i e , More--Scraps1 says that
■^.en he last^jLW tM&specimen, jirior to Jfo’s,ale of Mr. Heysharm's 09] lection, it
wasjen'-a most dilapidated eo^it^ii; the head being -so^arriJtcd from tlio ooajj
and it was probably thrown awjay^- aA^aH^gyejnjts it ig.nqit the same as the bird
sold on 11th May, 18A9, Lai l iB i ^ h i ^ , was in summpj.pl-urpage.
wounded bird which subsequently recovered and flew away,
near Banff on the'" 25th September, 1858', and it'is possible
that he may not believe-in the -correctness of its identification.
A similar d o u b t‘has precluded the insertion in this-
Edition of some other recorded- occurrences.' :
- ‘•'Under the mistaken impression that thisbird'had' been killed
in Sweden, and th a t it was also a new species',’ it' was described
by "Nilsson under the name Of Sdólëpdm p'dtfêyM1 (Grn. Swêe.
iiV p . I 1©'#)", an error he subsequently corrected-, I n France-
it hasfseveral times-bê'èn-obtained in Ricardy and Normandy';'
and M. Taezanowski states- tÊa# there are three- examples in
thé Museum Of Warsaw; ‘ frohtCape Tschukotsk in Northeastern
Siberia. I tn occurrence a’S- a- straggfeiucrthe south
of Greenland in 1854 has be_èn recorded by Reinhardt,
This li^his-very common' in th'e^United - States^©! America,
and ’has ?ir'eqnèntly^1ifein^ déSciwed'by the principal- American
naturalists. It'-was- -for merlyUonsidere'd'to Be* a true Snipef ’
but the Ml! is intermediate*-in its lengtla between- th a t of the
true- Snipes and the' Sandpiper^ and some otMf peculiarities;
in whi'ch*it--also differs -fron# both, as^elMf? examination
will show, induced DrC Lbach* tU'ëbhfe# upon^it^the^gehé^ic5
di sfinbtio n Tim-’, by*'which now; generally-’
known. - Auduboh, -in his afebhunt df this s-peeics/sa-ys^
tifat Uhe '"'-GrOotes Of Louisiana call h?
appropriate name HÉ9 -the bird, Since-the beak) is in str-ue-
iWé^tïatof a-Snipe; while the habits^aiid» great -seasonal
cüSnge' of plumage, are those of the marine Sand^ijjers.^
The Ehglish- nameks^vhhtfO*- this bird are" noti s | i happily
ehb¥Oni,-feeiQ/g^ -ef - more' personal2 '^pplcaXaoit^y It-has* bhofi.^
cillë'd- Red-brekÉted^iSnipê'j Brown Snipe, and- Grey2 Snipe ;
but thubiid fe’tihïyred duringUümmer, brown in-thOautumU,
amlhgrby'in ■ wihterCThe
R’ê d -b re a ste f^ h i^ ’e, a's:’ it is^'mtlbd“ b*y Wilson on
, 'aÉ’oUnt of-tMe" pi'e^ailing cnl|®r of itfe ■ summer) plumage-,
‘ tar-rive s-io'n tfr#%§'e^s^0afet, of New> JerSe-y- ëörïyhn April; '-%t)i^
seldom or never seen iniS®f®;«‘early in May itfproceeds to-the
north to breed, and?' returns by®'the - lattör part ’ojf 1July or
begin nip g ^ f f tAugUs4 » During- itsfMlay i t diiés in flocks;.