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some Englishmen here, but I cannot get to hear whether they seek 
eggs or not . . . So I went straightway to the marsh, and I sought 
the whole night, and in the morning I found a Snipe’s nest, where- 
over I was quite glad, and began straightway to catch the bird, but 
it went not into the snare, and I must shoot it. When I went 
to it I was so tired that I could nearly not stand. I found not 
anything afterwards, so I slept for an hour, till in the morning of 
the 28th I went to Ronvik and skinned the bird. Towards evening 
I went again to the marsh and sought the whole evening and night, 
and day of the 29th, but I found no more of anything, and saw only 
one Snipe, which bleated aloft, and now the steamer will go early 
in the morning.” 
The eggs were just ready to hatch and have immense holes in 
them. This nest was the only result of Ludwig’s extra trip to Bodo 
and Kop Vand. In the meanwhile the Messrs. Godman [the 
aforesaid “ Englishmen” ] had found sixteen eggs of the Great 
Snipe in the same place, as afterwards appeared, of which they gave 
me a complete nest and another to the Newtons. They got the 
birds from one or two nests and these were compared together with 
my bird at Cambridge [in November, 1857]. 
§ 4261. Four—Bod6, 27 June, 1857. “P. G.” From 
Messrs. F. and P. Godman. 
The following is an extract from Mr. Percy Godman’s note- 
book :— 
“‘ After dinner looked for Great Snipe. Our dog put up another 
bird, and found a nest with four eggs. We went to fetch our guns, 
and on coming to the nest the bird was again on it. My brother 
went inside the stuff to shoot her. He had a double shot and missed ; 
however, the bird was so well seen both by him and myself that 
there could be no doubt about the eggs. She ran along the ground, 
dragging her wings and making a noise like a Turkey-cock. This 
nest was placed on the top of a tump in green herbage, slightly 
lined with green grass and moss. It was about twelve or fifteen 
yards from a green read that leads from the church to the farm 
under the hill. We must have passed by the nest, that is within 
seven yards of it, at least six times in going to and fro to look at a 
scraping we had found.” 
