It does not arrive in this country till after the common 
fnipe, and generally quits us in March ; we have no reafon 
to doubt its breeding here, as it is fometimes feen in the 
fummer months ; a friend of the author's, who is very attentive 
in obferving this tribe of birds, aflures us, he has taken the 
neft and young in Cornwall ; we have alfobeen informed, that 
it fometimes breeds in the neighbourhood of Carlifle ; the eggs 
are faid to referable thofe of the common fpecies in colour, 
and are about half their fize ^ the neft is compofed of dry grafs 
and withered leaves. Some fpecimens we received from 
Cumberland weighed upwards of three ounces. Provincial 
names Half Snipe, Jud, Jet, or Gid-cock. . 
Since publifhing the Common Snipe, we have met with it 
in confiderable numbers, during the months of June and July 
(1812) in the ofier-ground, bordering on the Surrey-Canal, in 
the Kent-Road. We found many of their nefts compofed of 
dry grafs and leaves, placed in the midft of a fwamp, fcarcely 
above the water; feveral of the young were killed, which 
were darker coloured than the adult birds. 
