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COMMON SxNIPE. 



Class II. 



ish, barred with black ; the legs very long, and 

 of a bright red. 



[The spotted snipe has been killed in Atigk- 

 sey, and is preserved in the collection of the in- 

 genious ]\liss Meyinck, at Beaumaris. Ed. 



10. Com- 

 mon. 



Scolopax Gallinago. Sc. rostro 

 tuberculato, corpore nigri- 

 cante et fulvo vario subtus 

 albo, frontis lineis fuscis qua- 

 ternis. Lath. Tnd. orn. 713. 

 id. Syn. v. 134. 



La Beccassine ou Becasseau. 

 Belon av. 215. 



Gallinago, seu rustlcola mi- 

 nor. Gesner av. 503. 



Aldr. av. iii. 184. 



The Snipe, or Snite. Wil. orn. 

 290. 



Haii Syn. av. 105. 



La Beccassine. Brisson av. v. 

 298. Tab. 26. Jig. 1. Hist, 

 d'ois. vii. 483. PL Enl. 

 883. 



Pizzarda, Pizzardella. Zinan. 



101. 

 Mooss schnepf, Kram. 352. 



Frisck, ii. 22g. 

 Scolopax gallinago. Cm. Lin. 



662. 

 Horsgjok. Faun. Suec. sp, 



173. 

 Capella ccElestis. Klein av. 



100. 

 Islandis Myr Snippe. Norvegis 



Trold Ruke. Cimhris qui- 



lusd. Hossegioeg. Danis 



Dobbelt Sneppe, Steea 



Sneppe. Br. 16O. 

 Kositza. Scopoli, No. 138. 

 Br. Zool. 121. Arct. Zool. ii. 



165. 



XN the winter time snipes are very frequent 

 in all our marshy and wet grounds, where they 

 lie concealed in the rushes, S^c. In the sum- 

 mer they disperse to different parts, and are 

 found in the midst of our highest mountains, as 

 well as our low moors : their nest is made of 



