50 Miscellaneous Circular 15, U. S. Dept. of Aariculture. 
N. S., blind snipe, timber-doodle; Ont., timber-doodle; Pa., bog-bird, bog-sucker, 
bushschnip, mud snipe, shrups, wood snipe; Que., becasse, timber-doodle; Va., 
mountain-partridge, night-partridge, pewee, wood snipe. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Becasse d ‘Amérique (American becasse), big-headed snipe, big mud-snipe, common 
snipe, great red woodcock, lesser woodcock, Labrador twister, little woodcock, long- 
bill, marsh plover, red-breasted snipe, wood-hen. 
230. Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago). (Fie. 38.) 
Itange.—Two subspecies of the common snipe occur in our territory. Their respective ranges are: 
European Snipe (Gallinago galiinzgo gallinz79).—Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds 
in Great Britain, Iceland, northern Europe, and Siberia to latitude 70°, and in mountains of Europe and 
Asia; winters in Great Britain, southern Europe, northern. Africa, India, China, and the Philippines; 
easualin Greenland; accidentalin Bermuda. : 
Wilson Snipe (Gallinago gallinago delicaia?!)—North America and South America. Breeds from 
northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie (N.W.T.), central Keewatin (N.W.T.), and northern Ungava 
(Que.) scuth to northern California, southern Colorado, northern Iowa, northern Hlinois, Pennsylvania, 
and New Jersey; winters from northern California, New Mexico, Arkansas, and North Carolina through 
Central America and West Indies to Colombia and southern Brazil; remains in winter casually and locally 
north to Washington, Montana, Nebraska, linois, and Nova Scotia; accidentalin iiawaii, bermuda, and 
Great Britain. 
FIG. 38.—Common Snipe 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—English snipe; jacksnipe, often abridged to snipe, and rather 
rarely heard as common snipe or jack. 
In local use.—Alewife bird (Mass.); becassine (little becasse, or snipe) (La.); bog 
snipe (N.J.); cache-cache (a name probably having a double significance, it means 
literally hide-hide in allusion to the squatting habit of the bird, but no doubt is 
intended also to imitate the bird’s alarm note) (La.); chuweeka (S. C.); gray snipe 
(Pa.); gutter snipe (Ill.); hagaloo bird (Mich.); little-woodcock (Pa.); long-bill (Wis. ); 
marsh snipe (Md.); meadow snipe, robin snipe (Pa.); schnepfe (snipe) (Mo.); shad- 
bird (N. J., Pa., Del.); squatting snipe (Ala.); sumpf-schnepfe (swamp snipe) (Mo.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., squatting snipe; Del., shad-bird; J//., guttersnipe; La., 
becassine, cache cache; Md., marshsnipe; Mass., alewife bird; Mich., hagaloo bird; Mo., 
schnepfe, sumpf-schnepfe; NV. J., bog snipe, shad-bird; Pa., gray snipe, little wood- 
cock, meadow snipe, robin snipe, shad-bird; S. C., chuweeka; Wis., longbill. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American snipe, becassine de Wilson (Wilson’ssnipe), Douglas’s snipe, Drummond’s 
snipe, longbilled snipe, petite becassine (little snipe), shad-spirit, small sand-snipe, 
sourde (deaf), white-tailed snipe. 
Names used in Great Britain for the European subspecies of this snipe are common 
snipe, heather-bleater, jill snipe, and whole snipe. French names include becasse 
becassine (little becasse), chevre celeste (sky-goat), and chevre volante (flying-goat). 
21 Gallinago delicata, 
