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GREAT SNIPE. 



SOLITARY SNIPE. DOUBLE SNIPE. 



PLATE CLXXII. FIG. II. 



Scolopax major, 

 Gallinago major, 



Pennant. Montagu. 

 Stephens. 



The nest of the Great Snipe is placed on a tuft of 

 grass or hillock in a marsh near to some standing- 

 water, and is lined with a little grass and fragments 

 of other herbage. 



The eggs are four in number, of a yellowish olive 

 brown colour, spotted with two shades of reddish brown. 

 They require seventeen days incubation, and then the 

 young are tended for about a month by their parents. 



The figure on the plate is from an egg sent me 

 by J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, 

 Oxford. 



