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BROWN SNIPE. 
RED-BREASTED SNIPE. GREY SNIPE. BROWN LONGBEAK. 
Scolopax grisea, PENNANT. MOonrtTAGuU. 
Scolopax Noveboracensis, SABINE. 
Macroramphus griseus, . Eyton. GovuLp. 
Scolopar—A Woodcock, or Snipe. GHASC nko pncee 
Tuts Snipe, whose triple name denotes its different appearance 
in summer, autumn, and winter—red, brown, and grey, ac- 
cording to the season of the year, belongs naturally to North 
America. It is a very abundant species in the Fur Countries, 
and is found extensively from the borders of Lake Superior to 
the Arctic Sea. In Europe it has been shot in Sweden, and 
is included also among the birds of Greenland. 
Colonel Montagu was the first to mention the occurrence of 
this bird in Britain. His specimen was obtained in Devonshire, 
in the month of October; a second example, according to Dr. 
Edward Moore and Mr. Bellamy, was subsequently procured 
in the same county. A third was killed near Carlisle, in the 
year 1835; a fourth near Yarmouth, Norfolk, on the 12th. of 
October, 1836; a fifth also near the same place; a sixth in the 
same county in 1840. A seventh at Runton, and one at 
Horsey, shot by Mr. Rising, the 9th. of October, 1845. 
They migrate northwards the end of April and beginning 
of May, and return again southwards the end of July, and 
beginning of August. 
They go in flocks, sometimes of very large extent, keeping 
by themselves, and seldom associating with other species, as 
may be judged of from the fact that as many as eighty-five 
have been killed at one shot. They are considered particularly 
good eating, and numbers are accordingly obtained for the 
