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& rest both circumstances favourable to fat.
In wet open weather they are often obliged to make
long flights & their food is more distributed.
The Jack Snipe feeds upon smaller insects than
the snipe small white larvæ such as are found
in [xxxxxx] black bogs are its favourite food; but I
have generally found seeds in its stomach once hemp seeds
& always gavel. I know not where the Jack Snipe
breeds; but I suspect far North. I never saw their
nest or young ones in Germany France | Hungary Illyria | or the British
Islands. The common snipe breeds in great quantities
in the great |extensive| marshes of Hungary & Illyria : but I do
not think the Jack Snipe breeds there for even
in Aug^t July & Aug^t with the first very dry weather
many snipes with ducks & teal come into the marshes
in the [xxxxx] of Illyria but the Jack Snipe is always