. Guns and gunning. hehabits and haunts of the jack snipe are so easilyaffected by climatic and other conditions, that anintimate knowledge of its peculiarities is necessaryto find and approach it. On windy days the jack is very wild; its sensesare so keen that it is most difficult for the hunter toapproach within gun shot. Leave your dog at homein bad weather, and hunt down wind. In this wayyou can get some good shots; as the jack will riseagainst the wind, or toward the hunter. On warm, sunny days, they lie close, and a goodsetter or spaniel is necessary to find and flush them. As a table bi
. Guns and gunning. hehabits and haunts of the jack snipe are so easilyaffected by climatic and other conditions, that anintimate knowledge of its peculiarities is necessaryto find and approach it. On windy days the jack is very wild; its sensesare so keen that it is most difficult for the hunter toapproach within gun shot. Leave your dog at homein bad weather, and hunt down wind. In this wayyou can get some good shots; as the jack will riseagainst the wind, or toward the hunter. On warm, sunny days, they lie close, and a goodsetter or spaniel is necessary to find and flush them. As a table bird, the jack snipe has no superior. 18 They begin their northward migration in March,and by July are scattered throughout the MiddleStates, and the far north, for breeding. In theirmigrations they are found from South America tothe Arctic Circle; and many winter in our SouthernStates. They are to be found in low, marshy flooded cow-pasture is a favorite spot, but theyhaunt both fresh and salt water YELLOW-LEGS, BEETLEHEADEtc. As the difference between the snipe and ploverfamily is largely physical, and makes little differenceto the sportsman, I will speak of them as one. Theprincipal birds that go to make up a shore-birdhunters bag, are the yellow-leg, beetlehead or black-bellied plover, willet, dov^tcher, robin snipe, andthe curlews. The curlew is rare on the Eastern Coast ofAmerica, but it is still quite plentiful in Central, andWestern North America. There are several speciesof curlew; but they can be easily recognized bytheir large size and distinctive whistle. Their whistle is easily imitated, and they decoyreadily. In fact, curlew often become confusedwhen shot at, and return again to the hunter. Theysometimes congregate in immense flocks during their
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