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COMMON SNIPE. 



WHOLE SNIPE. SNITE. HEATHER BLEATER. 



ScoJopax (jallinago, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" gallniana, GAlELJJf. 



Gallinago med>a, SHAW. 



ScolopaxA Woodcock, or Snipe. Gullinago. 



THE Snipe, like the trout, is connected with my earliest 

 recollections. There is no bird which gives you more the 

 idea of a wild-fowl. You may look at a hundred, one after 

 another, and each will be regarded with fresh interest, and 

 as if in a new point of view. There is a 'Je ne scai quoi' 

 in its whole appearance, which seems to associate you with 

 itself in a love for running brooks and quiet scenes. 



The Snipe is very extensively distributed. In Europe it 

 is found in considerable numbers, in Germany, Holland, France, 

 Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Illyria, and Italy, especially in 

 the Pontine Marshes, near Rome, where they get up, literally, 

 it is said, in clouds; also in Russia, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, 

 and Denmark, and as far north as the Faroe Islands, Iceland 

 and Greenland. In Asia, it has been noticed in Siberia and 

 Asia Minor; and in Africa, it is said, in Lower Egypt. 



The Snipe breeds, and often in considerable numbers, in 

 many parts of the country; near Penryn, in Cornwall, in 

 Devonshire, on Dartmoor, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, in the New 

 Forest, Cambridgeshire, in Burwell and Swaffham Fens, and 

 other like parts; and in Norfolk, in most of the marshy 

 parts of the county. 



In Scotland, it occurs in Sutherlandshire in plenty, also 

 in the Orkneys, Hoy, and all the other islands, as likewise 

 in the Shetland Isles, but less abundantly, and also in the 

 Hebrides. 



