3l8 SANDWICH TERN. 



GREAT SNIPE. 



SCOLOPAX MAJORi 



Genus Scolopax. 



Double Snipe — Woodcock Snipe. 



An occasional visitor to our more swampy districts, 

 by no means common, and does not breed here. It 

 flies straighter and slower than the Common Snipe, 

 and is larger ; consequently it is a better mark for the 

 sportsman. 



JACK SNIPE. 



SCOLOPAX GALLINULA. 



Genus Scolopax. 



Half Snipe. 



A winter visitor, thinly distributed throughout marshy 

 tracts. In habits it does not differ much from the 

 Common Snipe. It is much smaller than this bird. 



SANDWICH TERN. 



STERNA CANTIACA. 



Family Larid.^. Genus Sterna. 



Surf Tern. 



The Sandwich Tern receives its name from Sand- 

 wich on the coast of Kent, where it was first observed 

 over a hundred years ago. It no longer breeds there, 

 however ; its chief breeding haunt on our shores being 

 on the Fame Islands, off the coast of Northumberland. 

 It also breeds in lesser numbers on the coast of Cum- 



