. The encyclopaedia of sport. , Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 202.). In the opinion of the writer it is caused bya vibratory movement of the flight feathersin the downward descent of the bird (ashappens with varying sounds in the peewitand rook); and this is the view taken byNaumann, Jardine, Hancock, Saxby, Chapman,and other observant naturalists. A long chapteron the subject reviewing the various theories willbe found in the present writers Essays onSport and Naliiral History, 1883. Sabines Snipe—When Vigors, in August,1825, received from Queens Co., Ireland, avery dark, almost black specimen of
. The encyclopaedia of sport. , Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 202.). In the opinion of the writer it is caused bya vibratory movement of the flight feathersin the downward descent of the bird (ashappens with varying sounds in the peewitand rook); and this is the view taken byNaumann, Jardine, Hancock, Saxby, Chapman,and other observant naturalists. A long chapteron the subject reviewing the various theories willbe found in the present writers Essays onSport and Naliiral History, 1883. Sabines Snipe—When Vigors, in August,1825, received from Queens Co., Ireland, avery dark, almost black specimen of a snipe, hetook it to be an undescribed species, and namedit after a distinguished contemporary ( Soc. vol. xiv. p. 557). At irregular inter-vals other specimens were subsequently obtained,and although in none of these did any of themeasurements differ appreciably from those ofthe common snipe, the singular colorationseemed to justify its separation from that December, 1870, there were at least five-and-twenty examples on record {The F
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