THe SHORE Birps. 205 
The Snipe, Gray Snipe, English Snipe, and Wil- 
son’s Snipe, as it is variously called, is another famil- 
iar migratory bird that is common to our marshy 
meadows, both a short distance inland from the ocean 
and across the continent. It breeds in the northern 
regions, as a rule; but to assert that it does not re- 
main south of New England and breed is absurd. 
There was never a summer, I think, that these birds 
were not seen on the Delaware meadows after the 
annual spring flight 
had gone _ north, 
and I have found 
them breeding or 
with young birds 
on more than one 
occasion. Warren 
gives instances of 
its being found in 
summer in Pennsyl- 
vania. It may be 
true that the ma- 
jority of such over- 
staying birds are English Snipe. 
“crippled ;” but, in- 
jured or sound, they rear their young all the same, 
and twenty years ago I suggested that such wounded 
birds had brought into existence birds that were con- 
tent on their northward migration to themselves nest 
in the locality where they were born. 
The Dowitcher, or Robin Snipe, is a sea-coast or 
salt-marsh bird that comes in the spring, goes north 
to breed, and returns in early autumn. They do not 
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