GREAT SNIPE 



SOLITARY SNIPE DOUBLE SNIPE. 



PLATE CLXXIL FIGURE II. 



Scolopax major, . . . PENNANT. MONTAGU. 

 Gallinago major, . . < STEPHENS. 



THE nest of the Great Snipe, a straggler to Britain, is 

 placed on a tuft of grass or hillock in a marsh near 

 to some standing water, and is lined with a little grass and 

 fragments of other herbage. 



The eggs are four in number, of a yellowish olive-brown 

 colour, spotted with two shades of reddish brown. They 

 are hatched after an incubation of seventeen days, and 

 then the young are tended for about a month by their 

 parents. 



