GREAT SNIPE. 35 



GREAT SNIPE. 



SOLITARY SXIPE. DOUBLE SNIPE. 

 PLATE CLXXII. FIGURE II. 



Scolopax major, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Gallinago major, STRPHENS. 



nest of the Great Snipe 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. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen sent 



me by J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, 



Oxford. 



