in the Island, it would be as well to give it a place in the Guernsey Bird Act, as it is much more worthy of protection during the breeding-season than many of the birds there mentioned.  Sometimes in the autumn I have seen and shot Snipe in the most unlikely places when scrambling along between huge granite boulders lying on a surface of hard granite rock, where it would be perfectly impossible for a Snipe to pick up a living; indeed with his sensitive bill I do not believe a Snipe, if he found anything eatable, could pick it off the hard ground.  Probably the Snipes I have found in these unlikely places were not there by choice, but because driven from their more favourite places by the continual gunning going on in almost every field inland.

The Snipe is included in Professor Ansted’s list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey:  it is difficult to say why this should be, when the Solitary Snipe and the Jack Snipe are marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark, and all three are, at least, as common in Alderney as in the other two Islands.  There is one specimen in the Museum.

121.  JACK SNIPE. Gallinago gallinula, Linnaeus.  French, “Becassine Jourde.”—­The Jack Snipe is a regular autumnal visitant to all the Islands, but never so numerous as the Common Snipe.  A few may always be seen, however, hung up in the market with the Common Snipes through the autumn and winter.

Professor Ansted includes it in his list, and marks it only as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.  There is no specimen at present in the Museum.

122.  KNOT. Tringa canutus, Brisson.  French, “Becasseau canut,” “Becasseau maubeche.”—­Common as the Knot is on the south and west coast of England during autumn and winter, it is by no means so common in the Channel Islands.  I have never shot it there myself in any of my autumnal expeditions.  Miss C.B.  Carey records one, however, in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1871, as having been shot on September the 23rd of that year; and Mr. Harvie Brown mentions seeing a solitary Knot far out on the shore at Herm in January, 1869.  These are the only occasions I am certain about, although it probably occurs sparingly every year, but I have never seen it even in the market, and were it at all common a few certainly would have occasionally found their way there.

Professor Ansted includes it in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.  There is no specimen at present in the Museum.

123.  CURLEW SANDPIPER. Tringa subarquata, Gueldenstaedt.  French, “Becasseau cocorli.”—­The Curlew Sandpiper, or Pigmy Curlew as it is sometimes called, can only be considered a rare occasional visitant to the Channel Islands.  I have never seen or shot one there myself, but Mr. Couch records one in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1874 as having been shot near the Richmond Barracks on the 5th of October of that year.  Colonel L’Estrange told me also that some were seen in a small bay near Grand Rocque in the autumn of 1877.  It may, however, have occurred at other times and been passed over or looked upon as only a Purre, from which bird, however, it may immediately be distinguished by its longer legs and taller form when on the ground, and by the white rump.