JACK SNIPE. 39 



GRALLA TORES. SGOLOPA CID^J. 



THE JACK SNIPE. 



Scolopax gallinula. 



Scolopax gallinula, Jack Snipe, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 63. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



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



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 206. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Becassine sourde, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 678. 



THOUGH allied to the Snipes in its haunts and general 

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

 culiarities. It is more decidedly a winter "visitor only, the 

 instances 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 

 searching for food it chooses sheltered situations among 



