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CLASS II. AVES: OHDEE 7. GRALLATOEES. 275 
THE DOUBLE, OR SOLITARY SNIPE. 
and black ; beneath reaaish chestnut barred witb black. They move northward in April, and 
breed in the northern regions of this continent, amid the reedy and marshy borders of the great 
lahes, feeding on leeches, worms, insects, and small mollusca, "which they extract from the mud 
with their long, dextroTis bills. They move southward in July and August, now gathering along 
the sea-shore, and appearing in large flocks, performing their aerial evolutions over the marshes, 
sometimes uttering a short, rapid note, and sometimes a loud, querulous whistle. At this period 
GRAY SNIPE. 
large numbers of them are killed in the Middle States, their flesh, like that of the other snipes, 
being of exquisite flavor. This species, which is known in some parts by the name of Dowitchee^ 
Quail Snipe, and Broion Snipe, is distributed over the temperate parts of North America, and a 
few specimens are seen in Europe from Sweden to Great Britain. 
The Common Amerioajt Snipe — /S. Wilsoni of De Kay, 8, gallinago of Temminck, often 
called WilsorCs Snipe, and also English Snipe, from the fact that it closely resembles the Euro- 
