JACK SNIPE. 
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found at the Cape of Good Hope ; and in very great 
abundance in parts of North America : in several of 
the counties of England they are in great plenty; 
indeed so much so were they formerly in Cambridge- 
shire, that as many were taken, according to Mr. 
Daniel, in Milton fen, by means of a lark-net, in one 
night, and by one man, as would fill a small hamper. 
JACK SNIPE. 
(Gallinago minima.) 
Ga. variegata, uropygio violaceo vario, pedibtis virescentibus, /oris 
ykscis. 
Variegated Snipe, with the rump varied with violet, the legs 
greenish, the lores brown. 
Gallinago minima. Raii. Sjjn. 105. A. 
Gallinago minor. Briss. Oni. 5. 203. 3. pi. 26./ 2. 
Scolopax gallinula. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 244, 8. Gmel. Sy4. 
Nat. 1. 662. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 716. Atk. comp. 144. 
La petite Becassine. Buff. Ois. 7. 490. 
Becassine sourde. Temm. Man.d'Orn. 440. Id. 2. Edit. 2. 678. 
Jack Snipe, Judcock, or Gid. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 189. pZ. 68. 
Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 367. Albin. Birds, 3. pi. 86. Lath. Gen. 
Syn. 5. 136. 8. Lew. Brit. Birds, 4. pi. 159. Mont. Orn. 
Diet. 2. Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. 73. 
This species greatly resembles the former ; but it 
is considerably smaller ; its length being only eight 
inches and a half : the beak is about an inch and a 
half in length, pale towards its base, and black at its 
tip : the head is divided longitudinally by a black 
sti'eak, which reaches from the base of the beak to 
