COMMON SNIPE 215 
The principal haunt of the species in Man is amid the cover 
under the plantations in ravines such as Injebreck, Rhenass, 
and Glenroy, but it occurs usually not very plentifully. 
One hundred and eleven Woodcock, of which all but 
eight are entered as Manx, were purchased by dealers in 
the island in 1902. In 1903 eighty-two were entered, 
seventy-two being native. 
Woodcock were killed striking the Point of Ayre light 
on the nights of 2nd and 3rd November 1880 (seemingly 
on each night), and on 7th October 1879 the species is noted 
at Douglas Head. 
It is generally common in Ireland, and breeds in every 
county ; great numbers arrive in Ulster on migration. In 
parts of Kirkcudbrightshire it nests, and in many places 
in north-western England, but is more abundant as a migrant. 
It occurs more or less in all the outer groups of Scottish 
isles, and is reported to breed in all. 
GALLINAGO C@LESTIS (Frenzel). COMMON 
SNIPE. 
Manx, *Coayr-heddagh (M. S. D.); Coar-chrattagh (Cr.) ; 
Yn Choayr haittagh or haddagh (Roeder, who translates 
‘the antic goat’); *Coar-ny heddagh, In these names 
Coar (Crane or Heron) should no doubt be Goar (Goat). 
(Cf. Sc. Gaelic, Gobhar Athar, Meannan Athair, etc. ; Irish, 
Gobhar-oidche ; Minean aerach, Gabhairin a reota ;} German, 
Himmelzege ; French, Chévre céleste, etc.) 
The Snipe is a fairly plentiful game-bird in Man, and at 
times is found in considerable abundance about the many 
little wild damp tracts interspersed over the country. 
1 The last two names applied in Birds of Ireland to the Jack Snipe, but surely 
in error, for the latter does not ‘bleat’ in this country at least. 
