BROWN SNIPE. S3 



GRALLA TORES. SCOLOPA CID m. 



PLATE CLXXXIX. 



BROWN SNIPE. 



SCOLOPAX GRISEA. 



The Brown Snipe is a very rare and accidental visitant in 

 Great Britain, and was added to the list of British birds 

 by Col. Montague, who obtained a specimen in winter 

 plumage on the coast of Devonshire. Another bird, in 

 summer plumage, is related by the Rev. L. Jenyns to 

 have been captured near Yarmouth. The eastern coast 

 of North America appears, from all that we can learn on 

 the subject, to be its principal resting place during the 

 months of April and August, when travelling north and 

 south ; in the spring to more northern climates to breed, 

 and in the autumn southward towards the equator, where 

 it passes the winter. 



The locality where the Brown Snipe is met with in 

 North America, is much the same as that which the god- 

 wits frequent, namely, soft, muddy, and marshy flats by 

 the sea-side, differing, however, in its frequenting also the 

 sandy flats and sand-banks at low water. Its food is ob- 

 tained most probably not so much in the water as in the 

 mud, by boring for it with its beak ; our reason for this 

 observation is owing to the proportionately short tarsi, and 



