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JACK SNIPE. 
and their young in August, while shooting; and 
every cross-questioning that could be put, would not 
allow him to think that he was mistaken by the 
young of the common Snipe. He mentioned the 
peculiar breeding-places frequented by them, and 
which, when visited, were exactly the spots we 
should have expected, or looked for a “ Jack.” Our 
search, however, was fruitless, and, so far as this 
point is concerned, we have been unable to fill it up 
in Scotland. So far as we know any thing of its 
European range, it is a northern species during the 
time of incubation, being a winter visitant only in 
France and most parts of central Europe ; by Tem- 
minck, it is said to breed in the vicinity of Peters- 
burgh.* Out of Europe, Colonel Sykes considers 
the species of the Dukhun to be identical. We have 
never, however, seen it, or received it with any 
collection from India. 
From the bill, over each eye, ‘to the back of the 
head, there is a broad streak of pale ochreous- 
yellow, divided immediately above the eye by a line 
of rich blackish-brown along the crown of the head ; 
arising narrowly from the bill is a broad streak 
of the same colour, running backwards the same 
length with the pale markings ; between the bill 
and the eye a streak of umber-brown ; cheeks, sides 
of the neck and breast, greyish-white, tinged with 
ochreous, and spotted with black by markings in 
the centre of each feather ; back black, with green 
and purple reflections, the feathers narrowly tipped 
* Manuel, Supplement. 
