. British birds in their haunts. Birds. THE COMMON 8N1PE. SCOLOPAX GALLIXAGO. Upper plumage very like the last; chin and throat reddisli white ; lower i»arts white, without spots ; flanks barred transversely with white and dusky; tail of fourteen feathers. Length eleven and a half inches. Eggs light greenish yellow, spotted with brown and ash. The Common Snipe is a bird of very general distribution, l:)eing found in all parts of the Eastern Continent, from Ireland to Japan, and from Siberia to the Cape of Good Hope. It is common also in many parts of America, especially Carolina, and is freque
. British birds in their haunts. Birds. THE COMMON 8N1PE. SCOLOPAX GALLIXAGO. Upper plumage very like the last; chin and throat reddisli white ; lower i»arts white, without spots ; flanks barred transversely with white and dusky; tail of fourteen feathers. Length eleven and a half inches. Eggs light greenish yellow, spotted with brown and ash. The Common Snipe is a bird of very general distribution, l:)eing found in all parts of the Eastern Continent, from Ireland to Japan, and from Siberia to the Cape of Good Hope. It is common also in many parts of America, especially Carolina, and is frequent in many of the American Islands. In Britain, Snipes are most numerous in the winter, their numbers being then increased by arrivals from high latitudes, from which they are driven by the impossibility of boring for food in ground hardened by frost or buried beneath snow. In September and October. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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