2. Noun. an individual of this species ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Snipe
Literary usage of Common snipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of British Birds: The Figures Engraved on Wood by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"... numerous Scolopax genus of Linnaeus amounts, according to Latham, to about
twenty species, besides varieties, of which only the Woodcock, common snipe, ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THE common snipe may be truly characterized as indigenous to this country.
It is known to breed in varying numbers in almost every county in England and ..."
3. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway: With an Account of the by Llewellyn Lloyd (1867)
"The common snipe.—Widely dispersed.—Accidental Varieties.—Resorts. ... The Common
Snipe is much more generally distributed than its congeners the Woodcock ..."
4. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"29 common snipe, Mont. Ornith. Dict—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 106. sp. ... THE Common
Snipe is the only British species that can properly be considered indigenous, ..."
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