WILSON’S SNIPE. 
ENGLISH SNIPE. COMMON SNIPE. JACK SNIPE. SHAD BIRD. 
Gallinago delicata. 
Char, Above, mottled brown, black, and buff ; tail with subterminal 
bars of rufous and black ; crown dusky, with medial stripe of buff ; neck 
and bre.ast pale brown, spotted with dusky; belly white, sides with dark 
bars. Length about ri inches. 
Nest. Amid a tussock of grass or bunch of moss in a wet meadow or 
margin of a marsh, — a slight depression in the turf sparingly lined with 
grass, leaves, or feathers. 
Eggs. 3-4 : olive of various shades, spotted with brown and lavender ; 
1.55 X 1. 10. 
The Snipe of North America, so nearly related to that of 
Europe, is found, according to the season, in every part of the 
continent, from Hudson Bay to Cayenne, and does not appear, 
indeed, sufficiently distinct from the Brazilian Snipe of Swain- 
son, which inhabits abundantly the whole of South America as 
far as Chili. Many winter in the marshes and inundated river 
grounds of the Southern States of the Union, where they are 
