JAfK SNIPE. 



611 



ORALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACIDJE. 



1 %mi$^ , 



THE JACK SNIPE. 



Scoliipax gain lui III, Jack Snipe, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 63. 

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



,, The Judcock, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 59. 



,, Jack Snipe, Flem. Brit. An. p. 106. 



Selbv, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 125. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 206. 

 ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 



,, Becassine scurde, Temm. Rlan. d"C)rnitli. vol. ii. p. 678. 



Though allied to the Snipes in its haunts and general 

 habits, the Jack Snipe is still distinguished by various pecu- 

 liarities. It is more decidedly a winter visiter only, the in- 

 stances of its remaining through the summer in this country 

 being very rare. It is more solitary than the Common Snipe, 

 though sometimes found in pairs, but these seldom get up 

 together, or go far before they settle again ; and although 

 it feeds on bare, boggy ground, yet when not scarcliing for 



2 R 2 



