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partially indigestible matter. This bird would, how- 
ever, appear occasionally to feed on other things 
than worms and insects, as attention is called, in a 
note in the ‘ Zoologist,’ to the fact of the stomach of 
one containing nothing but a few seeds and vege- 
table matter.* 
This species does not appear to breed in England, 
but in places where it does breed it is said to choose 
the same sort of locality for its nest that the Com- 
mon Snipe does. The nest itself does not appear 
to be a very elaborate structure, but merely a round 
spot pressed down in some long grass, and tolerably 
well lined with some dry grass and fragments of 
herbage. 
I have taken Yarrell’s description of this bird, as 
I have not one in my own collection to describe 
from: it is rather longer than the descriptions in 
some of the other books, but is more accurate, and 
as there seems to be another species of Snipe some- 
what resembling both this and the Common Snipe, 
which I shall have to mention in my notes of 
that bird, I think it very necessary to be as 
particular as I can in my descriptions of all the 
three. ‘In the Great Snipe the beak is dark brown 
at the end, pale yellow-brown at the base; irides 
dark brown; from the base of the beak to the eye a 
dark brown streak; over the eye and over the ear- 
* *§ Zoologist’ for 1864, p. 8890. 
