JACK SNIPE. 



SCOLOPACID^.] 



GALLINAGO GALLINULA, Linn^us. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1. Sula-suo, North Finland, June 8, 1861 ; H. E. Dresser coll. In collection 



of H. E. Dresser, Esq. 

 „ 2. Tifi jara, Tor Sieppi, June 14, 1854; J. WoUey coll. In collection of 



E. Bidwell, Esq. 

 „ 3. Kaaressuando, 1855; J. Wolley coll. In collection of H. E. Dresser, Esq. 

 „ 4. Kittila, Finland, July 28, 1890. In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 

 „ 5. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. 



„ 6. Russian Lapland, July 26, 1888. Ditto. 



„ 7. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. 



„ 8. Ditto. July 28, 1890. Ditto. 



„ 9. Ditto. 1861. Ditto. 



„ 10. Finnish Lapland, July 15,1888; W. Meves coll. In collection of H. E. 



Dresser, Esq. 

 „ 11. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. 



„ 12. Scolgill Island. In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 



The Jack Snipe is a regular winter visitor to the British Islands. A few 

 individuals have been known to spend the summer in England, but there is no 

 authenticated instance of its having nested in our islands. 



Mr. Howard Saunders writes as follows, respecting the geographical distribution 

 of the Jack Snipe * : — " In summer this species inhabits Scandinavia, especially 

 to the north of the Arctic circle, and in Western Eussia it nests as far south as 

 St. Petersburg, though east of Archangel it appears to be unfrequent, and 

 Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie-Brown did not observe it on the Lower Petchora. 

 Putting aside unsubstantiated assertions respecting its supposed breeding below 

 lat. 55°, it may be described as a bird of passage over the remainder of the 

 Continent, becoming very numerous in the south — in some years even more so 

 than the Common Snipe — during winter, at which season it visits North Africa 



* ' Manual of British Birds,' pp. 559, 560. 



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