moved from fide to fide ; it procures its food, confiding prin- 

 cipally of final 1 worms, by thrufting its bill into the moid 

 ground/ the worms being thus difturbed make for the furface, 

 where they are immediately devoured. 



When alarmed, the Snipe utters a flhrill whittle, and rifes 

 with con fider able noife ; it flies with great fwiftnefs, and after 

 having been roufed two or three times it is difficult to get 

 within fhot. 



A few of this fpecies breed annually with us, but the bulk, 

 of them quit this country about March or April ; we have 

 never been fo fortunate as to meet with the neft or young, 

 we mall therefore quote the following account from Mr. 

 Montague: " We have frequently taken the young before 

 they could fly, in the north of England and in Scotland. Near 

 Penryn, in Cornwall, there is a marfti where feveral breed 

 annually, and where we have have taken their eggs, which 

 are four in number, of an olivaceous colour, blotched and 

 fpotted with rufous-brown ; fome with dufky blotches at the 

 larger end and fome few elfewhere. 



" The neft is made of the materials around it, coarfe grafs, 

 and fometimes heath. It is placed on a flump or dry fpot near 

 a fplafh or fwampy place ; the eggs like thofe of the lapwing 

 are placed invariably with their fmaller ends inwards, being 

 much pointed ; their weight three drams and a half. In the 

 breeding feafon the Snipe changes its note entirely from that 

 it makes in the winter. The male will keep on wing for an 

 hour together, mounting like a lark, uttering a fhrill piping 



noife, 



