COMMON SNIPE. 



60^ 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACIDJE. 



Sci.l, 



THE COMMON SNIPE. 



ijiii.r gdlliitagfl, Conunon Snipe, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 60. 

 ,, ,, ,, IVloNT. Ornith. Diet. 



The 

 Common 



Bcccissine ordintiire. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 55. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 106. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 121. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 205. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornitii. vol. ii. p. 676. 



The Co3imon Snipe may be truly cliaracterised as in- 

 digenous to this country. It is known to breed in small 

 numbers in most of, if not in all, the counties along the 

 southern line of the English coast ; and as this bird is known 

 to go to high northern latitudes for the breeding-season, it is 

 found, as might be expected, producing its eggs and young 

 much more constantly, as well as frequently, in the nortlicrn 



