. Les oiseaux britanniques avec leurs nids et leurs œufs . y endroit sédatif ou herbacé près des marais plus ouverts. Les fautes ressemblent étroitement en couleur à celles de la Snipe commune, et mesurent l'ijinch par une nuance de plus d'un pouce de largeur. Comme ceux de beaucoup d'oiseaux de Lilicoline, ils sont très grands pour la taille de l'oiseau, et l'ensemble de quatre pesover ensemble i^ once: Tandis que l'oiseau lui-même ne pèse qu'environ deux onces. Les aubergines sont posées vers la mi-juin. Un oiseau beaucoup moins timide que le Snipe commun, la plupart du temps trouvé seul, et ne se levant donc dans les troupeaux (ou les whispes) comme il est l'habitude aggravante de l'autre à d

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. British birds with their nests and eggs . y sedgy or grassy spot close to more open swamp. The foureggs closely resemble in colour those of the Common Snipe, and measure ijinch by a shade over one inch in breadth. Like those of many Limicoline birds, they are very large for the size of the bird, and the set of four together weighover i^ ounce: while the bird itself only weighs about two ounces. The eggsare laid about the middle of June. A much less shy bird than the Common Snipe, mostly found singly, andnot rising therefore in flocks (or whisps) as it is the aggravating habit of theother to do—out of gun range. Neither is it affected so much by wet windyweather, which makes the Common Snipe unapproachable; and it rises silently.We are all acquainted with the sportsman who got a whole mnters shootingout of one Jack Snipe, which was always to be found in the same place whenwanted, and his lament when he injudiciously took a more skilful friend to thespot, who killed the Snipe. However apocryphal, the story gives a good idea of. a: *o UJ CL Z m o UJHen< UJ a:CD Qw The Red-Breasted Snipe. 5 the Jacks habits. It is, however, less difficult to shoot than the full Snipe, as the Common Snipe is often called; it usually rises well within range, and fliesless erratically. Moreover, as is well known, the Jack is never thin. When along frost has reduced the full Snipe to skin and bone, a Jacks bones arealways comfortably covered. This is probably due to its particular affection forsprings, and little running drains, which rarely freeze. Jack Snipe begin toappear with us about the middle or end of September, and leave in April; somefew, as above stated, remaining later, or even through the summer, but this isvery exceptional. The food of the Jack Snipe consists of small insects, larvse, &c.; it feeds chiefly in the evening and early morning, and I have very rarelyfound anything recognizable in the digestive canal, from only having dissectedJacks shot during the day; the dige

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