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GREAT SNIPE. 
SOLITARY SNIPE. DOUBLE SNIPE. 
Scolopax major, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 
Gallinago major, STEPHENS. 
Scolopaxz—A Woodcock, or Snipe. Major—Greater. 
Tus Snipe is found in EKurope—in Sweden and Norway, 
where it breeds in considerable numbers, Holland, France, 
Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, and Italy, in the Pontine 
Marshes, near Rome. In Asia, in Persia, and about the 
Caucasus. 
Pennant was the first to describe this as a British bird, 
from a specimen preserved in the celebrated Leverian Museum. 
‘It was killed in Lancashire. 
In Norfolk it is not uncommon in the autumn, in August 
and September, but is met with only in small numbers. 
W. F. W. Bird, Esq. tells me of three he saw shot there, 
and of another sent from Yarmouth. P. EH. Hansell, Esq. 
has reported his having found a nest with four eggs, in April, 
1846, at Belaugh, near Wroxham, the birds belonging to 
which appeared to be of this species; and he also informs 
me of a male bird having been killed near Lowestoft, in 
Suffolk, in the month of April, 1851. In the county of 
Northumberland several instances have occurred; one near 
Twizel, the seat of Prideaux John Selby, Esq., in 1822. In 
Durham, five or six on Sedgemoor. Two or three were 
obtained near Castle Eden in the winter of 1853; and the 
Hon. Augustus Barrington, and his brother Lord Barrington, 
shot, many years ago, tour Solitary Snipes, two of which 
