Plate A. 



Note compai-ative length and stoutness of bills 

 and shape at tip of 1 tiud 2. 



Note great difference in length and stoutness of 

 bills, also the dark tone of the Wood-Snipe (3) 

 and the pale tone of the Eastern Solitary 

 Snipe (4). 



HEADS OF SNIPE FOR COMPARISON OF BILLS. 



1. Pintail Snipe {Oallinago slenura). 



1. Common or Pantail Snipe {Gallinago gallinago). 



3. Wood Snipe (Gallinngo nemoricola). 



4. Eastern Solitary Snipe (Oallinago solitarid). 



