358 



SNIPE. 



Clafs IL 



VII. The SNIPE. 



La Becafline ou Becaffeau. Belon 



av. 215. 

 Gallinago, feu rufticola minor. 



Gejher av. 503. 

 Aldr. av. iii. 184. 

 Tl\e Snipe, or Snite. Wil em. 



290. 

 Raiifyn. av. 105. 

 JLa Beccaffine. Brijfon av, v. 



298. tab. 26. fg. 1. 

 Pizzarda, Pizzardella. Zinan. 



JO!. 



Moofs fchnepf. Araw. 352. 

 Scolopax gallinago. Lin. fy/t t 



244. 

 Horfgjok. Faun.Sutc.fp. 173. 

 Capella cceleftis. Klein a^v. 100. 

 JJlandis Myr Snippe. Norvegis 



Trold Ruke. Cimbris quibufd. 



Hoffegioeg £)«»« Dobbelt 



Sneppe, Steen Sneppe. „g>. 



160. 

 Br. Zoo I. 121.. 



IN the winter time fnipes are very frequent in all 

 our marlhy and wet grounds, where they lie con- 

 cealed in the rufhes, &c. In the fummer they difperfe 

 to different parts, and are found in the midft of our 

 hisheft mountains, as well as our low moors : their 

 jjeft is made of dried grafs ; they lay "four eggs of a 

 dirty olive color, marked with dufky fpots •, their 

 young are fo often found in England, that we doubt 

 whether they ever entirely leave this illand. When 

 they are difturbed much, particularly in the breed- 

 ing feafon, they foar to a van: height, making a lingu- 

 lar bleating noife j and when they defcend, dare 

 down with vaft rapidity : it is alfo amufing to ob- 

 ferve the cock (while his mate fits on her eggs) poife 

 himfeif on his wings, making fometimes a whiftling 

 - and fometimes a drumming noife. Their food is the 

 fame with that of the woodcock ; their flight very 

 irreoular and fwifc, and attended with a fhrill fcream. 

 Pefcr. This fpecies weighs four ounces , the length, to the 



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