Recurvirostra avocetta [Avocet]. More rare than the preceding.
Limosa melanura [Blacktailed Godwit].
Only two specimens have been taken here.
Limosa rufa [Bartailed Godwit].
A few of these may generally be observed every autumn, either by the sea-side or in our mosses. They do not stop long with us; a few days at most sufficing. Perhaps we have not suitable localities for them.
Machetes pugnax [Ruff].
Rare. Three, I think, have been obtained, all birds of the year, and all in autumn.
Scolopax rusticola [Woodcock].
Though a pair or two have been known to breed, the woodcock can hardly rank with us but as a winter visitor. In some seasons they are more numerous than in others. Does the snow affect the colouring of this species? My reason for asking this question is because, in very severe and snowy weather, I have seen many of them of a remarkably light colour; but in milder seasons, and when there were little or no storms or frost, I have never seen any of them with the same gray-like coating.
Scolopax gallinago [Common Snipe].