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jack-snipe certainly breeds in Zealand, and I saw a 

 nest with its eggs, said to be from the island of Sand- 

 holm, opposite Copenhagen ; and I have no doubt that 

 this bird and the double-snipe sometimes make their 

 nests in the marshes of Holstein and Hanover. An 

 excellent sportsman and good observer informs me, 

 that, in the great royal decoy, or marsh-preserve, near 

 Hanover, he has had ocular proofs of double-snipes 

 being raised from the nest there ; but these birds re- 

 quire solitude and perfect quiet, and, as their food is 

 peculiar, they demand a great extent of marshy mea- 

 dow. Their stomach is the thinnest amongst birds of the 

 scolopax tribe, and, as I have said before, their food 

 seems to be entirely the larvae of the tibulae, or conge- 

 nerous flies. 



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