XXXI. 
THE COMMON SNIPE. 
The young Snipe was very carefully drawn from a live bird caught at Rosliven 
in August, and returned safe to its mother. The bird was unquestionably the 
young of the Common Snipe, and the faithfulness of the portrait may be relied 
on ; but, for some reason or other, it differed much both in form and colour 
from the plate in Mr. Goulds Birds of Great Britain. The old bird is also 
from a live specimen, and the background represents the place where the young 
bird was caught. 
