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COMMON SNIPE. 
WHOLE SNIPE. SNITE. HEATHER BLEATER. 
Scolopax gallinago, PENNANT, MONTAGU, 
ss gallinaria, GMELIN. 
Gallinago media, SHAw. 
Scolopax—A Woodcock, er Snipe. Gallinago—........... ? 
THE Snipe, like the trout, is connected with my earliest 
recollections. There is no bird which gives you more the 
idea of a wild-fowl. You may look at a hundred, one after 
another, and each will be regarded with fresh interest, and 
as if in a new point of view. There is a ‘Je ne scai quoi’ 
in its whole appearance, which seems to associate you with 
itself in a love for running brooks and quiet scenes. 
The Snipe is very extensively distributed. In Europe it 
is found in considerable numbers, in Germany, Holland, France, 
Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Illyria, and Italy, especially in 
the Pontine Marshes, near Rome, where they get up, literally, 
it is said, in clouds; also in Russia, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, 
and Denmark, and as far north as the Faroe Islands, Iceland 
and Greenland. In Asia, it has been noticed in Siberia and 
Asia Minor; and in Africa, it is said, in Lower Egypt. 
The Snipe breeds, and often in considerable numbers, in 
many parts of the country; new Penryn, in Cornwall, in 
Devonshire, on Dartmoor, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, in the New 
Forest, Cambridgeshire, in Burwell and Swaffham Fens, and 
other like parts; and in Norfolk, in most of the marshy 
parts of the county. 
In Scotland, it occurs in Sutherlandshire in plenty, also 
in the Orkneys, Hoy, and all the other islands, as likewise 
in the Shetland Isles, but less abundantly, and also in the 
Hebrides. 
