. Uccelli britannici con i loro nidi e uova. Y sedgy o macchia erbosa vicino a palude più aperta. I foureggs assomigliano molto attentamente nel colore quelli della Snipe comune e misurano il ijinch da una tonalità oltre un pollice di larghezza. Come quelli di molti uccelli limicolini, sono molto grandi per le dimensioni dell'uccello e il set di quattro insieme pesano sopra i^ oncia: Mentre l'uccello stesso pesa solo due once. Gli sgangsi sono posati verso la metà di giugno. Un uccello molto meno timido che lo Snipe comune, per lo più trovato singolarmente, ednot che sale quindi in greggi (o sussurri) come è l'abitudine aggravante dell'altro ad 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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• bookcentury1800
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• booksubjectbirds
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