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GREAT SNIPE. 



SOLITARY SNIPE. DOUBLE SNIPE. 



Scolopax' major, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Gallinago ntujor. STEPHENS. 



Scolopax A Woodcock, or Snipe. Major Greater. 



THIS Snipe is found in Europe in Sweden and Norway, 

 where it breeds in considerable numbers, Holland, France, 

 Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, and Italy, in the Pontine 

 Marshes, near Rome. In Asia, in Persia, and about the 

 Caucasus. 



Pennant was the first to describe this as a British bird, 

 from a specimen preserved in the celebrated Leverian Museum. 

 It was killed in Lancashire. 



In Norfolk it is not uncommon in the autumn, in August 

 and September, but is met with only in small numbers. 

 W. F. W. Bird, Esq. tells me of three he saw shot there, 

 and of another sent from Yarmouth. P. E. Hansell, Esq. 

 has reported his having found a nest with four eggs, in April, 

 1846, at Belaugh, near Wroxham, the birds belonging to 

 which appeared to be of this species; and he also informs 

 me of a male bird having been killed near Lowestoft, in 

 Suffolk, in the month of April, 1851. In the county of 

 Northumberland several instances have occurred; one near 

 Twizel, the seat of Prideaux John Selby, Esq., in 1822. In 

 Durham, five or six on Sedgemoor. Two or three were 

 obtained near Castle Eden in the winter of 1853; and the 

 Hon. Augustus Barrington, and his brother Lord Barrington, 

 shot, many years ago, four Solitary Snipes, two of which 



