60 
10. Com- 
MON. 
, COMMON SNIPE. Crass II. 
ish, barred with black; the legs very long, and. 
of a bright red. a 
[The spotted snipe has been killed in Angle- 
sey, and is preserved in the collection of the in- 
genious Miss JMJeyrick, at Beaumaris. Ep. 
Scolopax Gallinago. Sc. rostro Pizzarda, Pizzardella. Zinan. 
tuberculato, corpore  nigri- 101. 
cante et fulvo vario subtus 
albo, frontis lineis fuscis qua- 
ternis. Lath. Ind. orn. 715. 
Frisch, ii. 229. 
Scolopax gallinago. Gm. Lin.’ 
Mooss schnepf. Kram. 352. 
id. Syn. v. 134. 662. 
La Beccassine ou Becasseau. Horsgjok. Faun. Suec. sp. 
Belon av. 215. Dual gee 
Gallinago, seu rusticola mi- 
nor. Gesner av. 503. 
Aldr. av. iii. 184. 
The Snipe, or Snite. Wil. orn. 
290. 
Rait Syn. av. 105. 
La Beccassine. Brisson av. v. 
298. Tal. 26. fig. 1. Hist. 
dois. vii. 483. Pl. Eni. 
883. 
Capella ccelestis. Klein av. 
100. ; 
Islandis Myr Snippe. Norvegis 
Trold Ruke. Cimbris qui- 
Danis 
Steen 
busd. Hossegioeg. 
Dobbelt Sneppe, 
Sneppe. Br. 160. 
Kositza. Scopoli, No. 138. 
Br. Zool. 121. Arct. Zool. ii. 
165. 
IN the winter time snipes are very frequent 
in all our marshy and wet grounds, where they 
lie concealed in the rushes, &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 
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