GREAT SNIPE. 



597 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACIDM. 



THE GREAT SNIPE. 



Scolopax major. Great Snipe, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 62. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Solharif ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 51. 



,, ,, Great ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 105. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 115. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 205. 



, ,, ,, ,, GouLu, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 



,, ,, Grande Becassine, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 675. 



The Great Snipe was first described as a British Bird 

 by Pennant, from a specimen killed in Lancashire, preserved 

 in the Leverian Museum, and was at that time considered a 

 very rare bird ; it was, however, probably undistinguished 

 by many from the Common Snipe, till specific characters and 

 distinctions among species were closely investigated. It is 



