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terranean countries, and migrates through Turkestan as well as 
through Japan and China. It is found in India and Burma 
during the cold season, and has been known to occur as far 
east as the Island of Formosa. 
Habits. — These differ very little from those of the Common 
Snipe, with the exception that, when it rises, the Jack-Snipe 
seldom utters any note. When in Heligoland with the late 
Mr. Seebohm and Mr. F. Nicholson, I frequently kicked up 
Jack-Snipe in the potato-fields, and when disturbed from the 
grass on Sandy Island, I have often seen these birds perch on 
the heaps of sea-weed, and have shot them sitting on several 
occasions. 
Nest — -The first taking of the nest of the Jack-Snipe was one 
of the achievements of the late John Wolley in Lapland. I give 
the following extract from his account published in Hewitson’s 
“Eggs of British Birds” : — “It was on the 17th of June, 1853, in 
the great marsh of Muonioniska, that I first heard the Jack-Snipe, 
though at the time I could not at all guess what it was ; an ex- 
traordinary sound, unlike anything that I had heard before. I 
could not tell from what direction it came, and it filled me 
with a curious surprise ; my Finnish interpreter thought it was 
a Capercaillie, and at that lime I could not contradict him, but 
soon I found that it was a small bird gliding at a wild pace at 
a great height over the marsh. I know not how better to 
describe the noise than by likening it to the cantering of a horse 
in the distance, over a hard, hollow road ; it came in fours in 
similar cadence, and with a clear yet hollow sound. The same 
day we found a nest which seemed to be a kind unknown to me. 
The next morning I went to Kharto Uoma with a good strength 
of beaters. I kept them as well as I could in a line, myself 
in the middle, my Swedish travelling companion on one side, 
and the Finn talker on the other. Whenever a bird was put 
off its eggs, the man who saw it was to pass on the word, and 
the whole line was to stand whilst I went to examine the eggs 
and take them at once, or ob.scrve the bearings of the spot for 
another visit, as might be necessary. We had not been many 
hours in the marsh when I saw a bird get up and I marked it 
down. . . . The nest was found. ... A sight of the 
eggs as they lay untouched raised my expectations to the high- 
