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SCOLOPACID^:. 



as well as those shot in Sweden. Its nest, which has 

 rarely been seen, is placed in a tuft of grass, and contains 

 four eggs. Mention is made in the Zoologist* of four 

 solitary Snipes having been killed in the county of Durham 

 in the month of August. Two of these were young birds, 

 scarcely fledged ; it would appear, therefore, that this bird 



THE GREAT SNIPE. 



sometimes breeds in Great Britain. The writer of the 

 paragraph states that he had met with Great Snipes in 

 vast numbers along the coast of Nordland and Finmark. 

 In a marsh near Bosoe, he and his friends obtained seven 

 brace in half an hour, in the month of August, the young 

 birds being fully fledged. 



* Vol. xi. p. 3911. 



