JACK SNIPE. 



(IRA LLA TOIiES. 



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SCOLOPACIDM. 





THE JACK SNIPE. 



Scolopax gallinula. 



Sculopcu; galiinula. Jack Snipe, 



The Judcock, 

 Jack Snipe, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 63. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 106. 

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



,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 206. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi 



Btcassine 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 pecu- 

 liarities. It is more decidely 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 



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